View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Caputo say is the second stage of soldiers in battle?
(a) Problems remembering specific things
(b) Drowsiness
(c) Hatred for everything and everyone around you
(d) Disorientation

2. How does the Marine frontal assault look to Caputo?
(a) Like a snake with two heads
(b) Nothing like the practice attacks at Quantico
(c) Like Hannibal crossing the Alps.
(d) Like a perfect military maneuver

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

4. What does Caputo observe about the young mother as they are searching her house?
(a) How she looks on with complete passivity and without without expression.
(b) How she covers her face with a scarf.
(c) How frightened she looks.
(d) How she appreciates his putting everything back in place.

5. How does Caputo see future life in the military?
(a) As financial security for the rest of his life
(b) As an occasion for excitement and danger
(c) As good training for surviving natural disasters
(d) As an easy way to make money

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Caputo choose to enlist with the Marines?

2. What do they learn about military plans in the bush?

3. A book by what author is Caputo trying to read while waiting at the outpost on top of a hill?

4. What does Caputo call the training for war?

5. What does the village of Hua-Vuc conjure up in the minds of the Marines?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 361 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample