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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the change that takes place at Hill 327?
(a) The plan changes from defensive to offensive.
(b) The food improves with better suply lines.
(c) The junior officers are all given new commands.
(d) More work is done during the night than in the day.

2. What familiar smells and sounds does Caputo comment on back at base camp?
(a) He mentions the oil and solvent used for cleaning rifles and the metallic sound of cleaning rods.
(b) He mentions the smell of sweaty uniforms and the sound of the field radio.
(c) He mentions the smell of insect repellent and the sound of mosquitoes.
(d) He comments on the smell of spent ammunition and the sound of beetles.

3. In this first offensive, how do Caputo and his men see themselves?
(a) As unprepared for combat
(b) As knights in shining armor
(c) As frightened school kids
(d) As boy scouts on a hike

4. A book by what author is Caputo trying to read while waiting at the outpost on top of a hill?
(a) Henry Miller
(b) Kipling
(c) Hemmingway
(d) James Joyce

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In the evening, why are the peasant girls rushing down the road to their village?

2. What happens right under their noses as they settle into Danang?

3. How does Caputo describe his feeling after learning about the death and casualties?

4. What becomes of Vietnamese wounded in battle or victims of landmines?

5. What do the bar girls insist on before they will leave with a Marine?

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