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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What do the bar girls insist on before they will leave with a Marine?
(a) He must go shower.
(b) He must get tested by a vietnamese doctor.
(c) He must buy them one drink.
(d) He must pay them up front for their services.

3. What position does Battalion Headquarters take on identifying a Viet Cong?
(a) If he attempts to hide, he is a Viet Cong.
(b) If he has a Russian made gun, he is a Viet Cong.
(c) If he is dead and Vietnamese, he is a Viet Cong.
(d) If the acts suspiciously, he is a Viet Cong.

4. What is everyone told about the war in the first briefing Caputo attends?
(a) That it is defensive only to free the ARVN to fight their war.
(b) That the Americans would never launch a full scale offensive.
(c) That Americans would not be supplied with live ammunition.
(d) That the war had already effectively divided the country in half.

5. What does Caputo almost trip over going through the high grass?
(a) The radio operator
(b) A dead water buffalo
(c) A VC corpse
(d) A trip wire connected to a mine

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lemmon say they are trying to do while the Howies are strafing the area?

2. How does the Marine frontal assault look to Caputo?

3. What event does Caputo recall that further dims the idea of glamor in war?

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

5. How does Caputo explain Peterson's walking away and not looking at Sullivan after he is shot?

(see the answer key)

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