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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the adjutant's quarters look as Caputo returns to Vietnam?
(a) A water-soaked tent with makeshift furniture
(b) A revamped box car
(c) A dugout with sandbag walls and a bamboo roof
(d) A prefab building with airconditioning

2. Where does Caputo go for advanced training?
(a) Fort Hood, TX
(b) Quantico, VA
(c) Ft. Bragg, NC
(d) Camp Pendleton, CA

3. What are some of the things Caputo learns in Marine training?
(a) Physical exercize, recommended reading, and filing of paperwork.
(b) Military protocol, military dress, military jargon, and Marine Corps traditions.
(c) Survival skills, Marine history, rules and regulations, weaponry, and how to kill.
(d) Use of new technology, making homemade weapons, and disarming women combatants.

4. Why does boredom get replaced with terror on the outpost hill?
(a) The fighting begins to move up the hill.
(b) Enemy fighters fly overhead.
(c) Rock apes descend on the outpost.
(d) A VC almost infiltrates the outpost.

5. What irony does Caputo see in the guerrilla warfare manual he had studied in the States?
(a) The remark that the jungle is only in Africa.
(b) The suggestion that the enemy could not advance in the jungle.
(c) The statement that one should not be afraid of the jungle.
(d) The idea that the jungle is only trees.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Caputo's attempt to get closer to his men on leave in Danang work out?

2. What names does Caputo recall from his platoon?

3. What is the aim of Caputo's first entry into combat?

4. What does Caputo observe about the young mother as they are searching her house?

5. What place do they pass through on the fourth day?

(see the answer key)

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