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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What occurs as Caputo walks through the elephant grass in the jungle?
(a) He comes face to face with a viet Cong.
(b) He walks up on an Asian elephant.
(c) He steps on a land mine that fortunately does not detonate.
(d) He is almost shot by Lance Corporal Skates.

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

3. What does Caputo speculate about in regard to mines remaining in an area where the RPs are supposed to have cleared them?
(a) The RFs lack the necessary equipment to do the job right.
(b) The RFs often clear the wrong field because of communication problems.
(c) There are just too many to find all of them.
(d) Either they are lazy or Viet Cong who had inflitrated them, leave the mines in place.

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

5. Who seems to know what will happen better than the soldiers?
(a) The messhall cooks
(b) The telephone operators
(c) The chaplains
(d) The prostitutes

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What happens with the ARVN scouts in the first offensive action?

3. At what age does Philip Caputo enlist in the Marine Corps?

4. What is the majority opinion about the countermanded orders to ship out?

5. What becomes of major importance to Caputo in those early days?

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