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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many men are on a helicopter team?
(a) Eight
(b) Ten
(c) Six
(d) Four

2. Where is Caputo's first command?
(a) Danang, Vietnam
(b) Seoul, Korea
(c) Okinawa, Japan
(d) The Philippines

3. Where are most of the men when the orders come to deploy to Vietnam?
(a) On leave in Tokyo
(b) Asleep in their quarters
(c) Out drinking and visiting the Okinawan prostitutes
(d) Sitting on the beach surf fishing

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

5. 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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the stated interest of the U. S. government for war in Vietnam?

2. What booby traps are observed on the trail after fording the river?

3. What does Caputo speculate about in regard to mines remaining in an area where the RPs are supposed to have cleared them?

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

5. What occurs as Caputo walks through the elephant grass in the jungle?

(see the answer key)

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