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

3. Why are the Medivac helicopters unable to land to pick up casualties?
(a) It was too windy for helicopters to fly
(b) The LZ is under enemy machine gun fire.
(c) The VC had set the LZ on fire
(d) The Howies had destroyed the terraine

4. How do the Marines return to base camp?
(a) They wait for morning and go by helicopter.
(b) A truck convoy picks them up.
(c) They have to march all the way back.
(d) Wagons pulled by water buffalo take them back.

5. Who makes up Caputo's first command?
(a) A group of forty Marines in the Third Marines Division
(b) New recruits from Alabama
(c) Older, war experienced non-coms
(d) Men he went to basic training with

Short Answer Questions

1. How do they spend their first day at Danang?

2. Why do they get ready to move out to the war zone several times?

3. What do they experience on their first night?

4. How long do Caputo and his platoon continue guarding the parameters at Danang?

5. What does Caputo say he learns later about the war in Vietnam?

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