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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At what age does Philip Caputo enlist in the Marine Corps?
(a) 21
(b) 19
(c) 20
(d) 18

2. How does Caputo describe the descent of a helicopter?
(a) Like a run down a ski slope
(b) Like standing in a high wind
(c) Like a roller coaster or a canoe rushing down the rapids
(d) Like a falling brick

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

4. What looks beautiful from the hill but becomes ominous up close?
(a) The vietnamese villages
(b) The orange smoke of artillery
(c) The muddy colored river
(d) The Cordellia

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When the wounded VC's trail leads around a bend in the river, what choices does Caputo have?

2. Why is it difficult to round up the platoon?

3. How do they get from Okinawa to Vietnam?

4. What is to be the measure of victory in the battle?

5. Who seems to know what will happen better than the soldiers?

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