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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the adjutant's quarters look as Caputo returns to Vietnam?
(a) A revamped box car
(b) A water-soaked tent with makeshift furniture
(c) A dugout with sandbag walls and a bamboo roof
(d) A prefab building with airconditioning

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

3. What does Caputo call the training for war?
(a) A subtle kind of mind control
(b) A little bit of hell
(c) The calm before the storm
(d) The last torture

4. Does Caputo believe the deployment is for real when he is told about it?
(a) Yes, he runs to the base to start packing.
(b) No, he ignores it and goes on drinking.
(c) No, he calls the OD to make sure.
(d) Yes, but he is too stunned to know what to do.

5. What happens for about twenty-five of the men?
(a) They are the first to get medical exams for tropical diseases.
(b) They are put on report for mistakes they made.
(c) They fall ill from dengu fever.
(d) They are trucked to Danang for liberty.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Caputo do at Camp Upshur, Virginia?

3. What do they learn about military plans in the bush?

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

5. In the evening, why are the peasant girls rushing down the road to their village?

(see the answer key)

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