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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What names does Caputo recall from his platoon?
(a) Men who either died or were severely wounded in combat
(b) Men with whom he played poker and drank beer
(c) Men who always followed his orders to the letter
(d) Men who caused him the most grief

2. What does Caputo call the training for war?
(a) A subtle kind of mind control
(b) The last torture
(c) A little bit of hell
(d) The calm before the storm

3. How does Caputo describe his platoon?
(a) They are all uneducated and street fighters.
(b) As a highly polished fighting machine that needed no training.
(c) As men who enlist, train and travel together from the beginning.
(d) They are a group of strangers and misfits.

4. What are some of the things Caputo learns in Marine training?
(a) Physical exercize, recommended reading, and filing of paperwork.
(b) Use of new technology, making homemade weapons, and disarming women combatants.
(c) Survival skills, Marine history, rules and regulations, weaponry, and how to kill.
(d) Military protocol, military dress, military jargon, and Marine Corps traditions.

5. How do they get from Okinawa to Vietnam?
(a) They go on an aircraft carrier.
(b) They ship out on giant C-130 planes.
(c) They go on PT boats up the China Sea.
(d) They go in a PanAm chartered plane.

Short Answer Questions

1. After graduation from Loyola College, where does Caputo go?

2. What does Caputo do at Camp Upshur, Virginia?

3. Where is Caputo's first command?

4. What is everyone told about the war in the first briefing Caputo attends?

5. What do Caputo and his platoon have in common?

(see the answer key)

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