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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Caputo observe about the young mother as they are searching her house?
(a) How she covers her face with a scarf.
(b) How she looks on with complete passivity and without without expression.
(c) How frightened she looks.
(d) How she appreciates his putting everything back in place.

2. How does Caputo describe the descent of a helicopter?
(a) Like a run down a ski slope
(b) Like a roller coaster or a canoe rushing down the rapids
(c) Like a falling brick
(d) Like standing in a high wind

3. How does Caputo explain Peterson's walking away and not looking at Sullivan after he is shot?
(a) He never could stand the sight of blood.
(b) He thinks Marines have to be too tough.
(c) That is the way he is; he really loves this company.
(d) He has no patience for stupidity.

4. After graduation from Loyola College, where does Caputo go?
(a) Washington, D.C.
(b) Quantico, VA
(c) NCO School
(d) Officers Basic School

5. Who are the only adults who pay attention to the Marines as they pass through Dogpatch?
(a) The local police
(b) The fruit venders
(c) The whores called Boom-Boom girls
(d) The Vietnamese Ruff-Puffs on leave

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the adjutant's quarters look as Caputo returns to Vietnam?

2. How does Gonzales become the first casualty of Caputo's platoon?

3. What is the prognosis for Powell's recovery after his heatstroke?

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

5. Where does Caputo go after being shown his sleeping quarters?

(see the answer key)

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