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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is Caputo relieved that the dead boy had no identification on him?
(a) He does not want to think of him as a person but as a dead enemy.
(b) He doesn't want to know a name he can not pronounce.
(c) He won't have to fill out a lot of paperwork.
(d) He doesn't want to have to explain to the boy's family.

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

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

4. When the Vietnamese children try to sell bottles of Coke, why do the men refuse them?
(a) Coke is a weapon often laced with poison or ground glass.
(b) In that weather the Cokes are all spoiled.
(c) They do not want to deprive the children.
(d) They have no time to drink a Coke.

5. What do Caputo and his men discover as they pursue the wounded VC?
(a) A small base camp
(b) A cache of modern weapons
(c) A woman carrying a baby
(d) A tunnel too small for a Marine to enter

Short Answer Questions

1. Does Caputo believe the deployment is for real when he is told about it?

2. At the new command, what does Caputo say the men do?

3. Who makes up Caputo's first command?

4. Why is it difficult to round up the platoon?

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

(see the answer key)

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