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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What familiar smells and sounds does Caputo comment on back at base camp?
(a) He mentions the oil and solvent used for cleaning rifles and the metallic sound of cleaning rods.
(b) He mentions the smell of insect repellent and the sound of mosquitoes.
(c) He mentions the smell of sweaty uniforms and the sound of the field radio.
(d) He comments on the smell of spent ammunition and the sound of beetles.

2. How many men are on a helicopter team?
(a) Eight
(b) Six
(c) Ten
(d) Four

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

4. Who seems to know what will happen better than the soldiers?
(a) The telephone operators
(b) The messhall cooks
(c) The chaplains
(d) The prostitutes

5. How do they get from Okinawa to Vietnam?
(a) They ship out on giant C-130 planes.
(b) They go in a PanAm chartered plane.
(c) They go on PT boats up the China Sea.
(d) They go on an aircraft carrier.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Caputo see future life in the military?

2. What are some of the things Caputo learns in Marine training?

3. When the Vietnamese children try to sell bottles of Coke, why do the men refuse them?

4. What event does Caputo recall that further dims the idea of glamor in war?

5. What does Caputo say is the second stage of soldiers in battle?

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