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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What sobering realization does Caputo come to after his service in Vietnam?
(a) He is too young when he enlists to realize how boring the military really is.
(b) That serving your country is a greater responsibility than anyone understands.
(c) That war is the only answer to the problems of the world.
(d) He wants so badly to be a man in the middle of danger, that he did not realize he iss toying with death.

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

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

4. What does Caputo say accounts for many other casualties?
(a) Disorientation resulting in wandering from the camp
(b) Sunstroke and accidents, accidental discharges of weapons, and disease
(c) Suicides and in-fighting
(d) Heavy artillery fire that came mostly at night

5. What is the real resistance walking from the L to the Vietnamese village?
(a) Muddy rice paddies
(b) Farmers armed with pitchforks
(c) The land, the sun, and the jungle
(d) Constant sniper fire

Short Answer Questions

1. What looks beautiful from the hill but becomes ominous up close?

2. How do they get from Okinawa to Vietnam?

3. How do they spend their first day at Danang?

4. What are some of the things Caputo learns in Marine training?

5. How does Caputo describe the Viet Cong division he first becomes aware of by looking at a site map, a map showing positions of allies and enemy in the field.

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