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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Big Ivan?
(a) The radio code name for the battery of howitzers used ahead of the troop movement into combat
(b) The radio communications system needed for orders on the combat
(c) The squadron of helicopters that will take the troops into combat
(d) The general who is overseeing the troop movement into combat

2. What is the change that takes place at Hill 327?
(a) The food improves with better suply lines.
(b) More work is done during the night than in the day.
(c) The junior officers are all given new commands.
(d) The plan changes from defensive to offensive.

3. Why do they have to grenade the VC trap twice?
(a) The first grenades are duds.
(b) They just want to double check.
(c) The trap is uncommonly huge.
(d) The first two are in the wrong place.

4. From where does the attrition in 1st Battalion come?
(a) It comes through serious diseases.
(b) It comes from recall of Marines to other war fronts.
(c) It is inflicted by the enemy and by themselves.
(d) It happens with a large number of desertions.

5. How does Gonzales become the first casualty of Caputo's platoon?
(a) He is hit by a sniper when he gets out of his foxhole.
(b) He is laying wire where there are mines that had not been removed.
(c) He comes down with malaria and dies.
(d) Walking across the airstrip, he is hit by a helicopter.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the new command, what does Caputo say the men do?

2. What is a consistent reminder of the casualties of war.

3. What is the warning as Caputo and his men head for Charlie Ridge?

4. What exhilarates Caputo after the Hoi-Vuc village wipe out?

5. What is the feeling of the brigade as the offensive begins?

(see the answer key)

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