1. What does Caputo say about the VC guerrillas being everywhere?
(a) The Americans are always outnumbered.
(b) The VC know all the secrets of the jungles and tall grasses.
(c) They have to suppose that any Vietnamese is a VC.
(d) It is another way of saying nowhere.

2. How do they spend their first day at Danang?
(a) Packing and piling sandbags and digging foxholes and ditches
(b) Getting a tour of the area
(c) Looking for a place to put their tents
(d) Reading field manuals

3. How does Caputo describe the feelings of the men after the destruction of the village Giao-Tri?
(a) The men are learning to hate those who give succor to the enemy.
(b) The men wonder if that could ever happen in America.
(c) There is great shock at how they went mad in the destruction.
(d) They are believing that there are no civilians in war.

4. What is the aim of Caputo's first entry into combat?
(a) Find a battalion and destroy it.
(b) Scare the Viet Cong into retreat.
(c) Set up an outpost.
(d) Look for snipers and take them out.

5. What are the two problems Caputo says are the worst while they guard the landing field?
(a) The rain and bad food
(b) The long days and short nights
(c) The mosquitos and the pythons
(d) The heat and boredom

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Caputo describe the Viet Cong division he first becomes aware of by looking at a site map, a map showing positions of allies and enemy in the field.

2. What does Caputo say accounts for many other casualties?

3. What irony does Caputo see in the guerrilla warfare manual he had studied in the States?

4. Why does Peterson call for an air strike on Hill 107?

5. What happens with the ARVN scouts in the first offensive action?

(see the answer key)

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