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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is it difficult to round up the platoon?
(a) They had gone on a night training hike.
(b) Many of them had gone AWOL.
(c) It is Sunday and they are all over the island.
(d) They hear the news and do not want to be found.

2. What mistake does 2d Lt. Caputo make on a training exercise that gets him a reprimand?
(a) He orders a retreat.
(b) He takes a nap while waiting for orders.
(c) He changes a captain's orders.
(d) He lights up a cigarette.

3. How do they spend their first day at Danang?
(a) Getting a tour of the area
(b) Looking for a place to put their tents
(c) Packing and piling sandbags and digging foxholes and ditches
(d) Reading field manuals

4. What is everyone told about the war in the first briefing Caputo attends?
(a) That the Americans would never launch a full scale offensive.
(b) That Americans would not be supplied with live ammunition.
(c) That it is defensive only to free the ARVN to fight their war.
(d) That the war had already effectively divided the country in half.

5. At the new command, what does Caputo say the men do?
(a) They play in the jungle by day and drink with the prostitutes by night.
(b) They carve monkey faces in coconuts.
(c) They do hours of calisthenics.
(d) They work as extras for McHale's Navy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Caputo say he learns later about the war in Vietnam?

2. Does Caputo believe the deployment is for real when he is told about it?

3. How does Caputo describe his platoon?

4. Why do they get ready to move out to the war zone several times?

5. Where does Caputo go for advanced training?

(see the answer key)

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