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

2. When the wounded VC's trail leads around a bend in the river, what choices does Caputo have?
(a) Go after him and risk an ambush or turn around and go back.
(b) Call for air cover or send a RP scout in to take a look.
(c) Assume the VC is dead or wait and watch for some movement.
(d) Go around the bend himself or send a volunteer.

3. What are Vietnamese children doing as the Marine trucks pass through the village called Dogpatch?
(a) Throwing rocks at the trucks
(b) Playing rock music on radios
(c) Dancing on the edge of the dusty road
(d) Begging for candy and cigarettes

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

5. 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) Either they are lazy or Viet Cong who had inflitrated them, leave the mines in place.
(c) The RFs often clear the wrong field because of communication problems.
(d) There are just too many to find all of them.