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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What tale does Colonel Nickerson love to recount?
(a) His days at Quantico
(b) The taking of Phan Moon Jan
(c) D-Day in Europe
(d) The landing at Guadalcanal

3. At the new command, what does Caputo say the men do?
(a) They work as extras for McHale's Navy.
(b) They carve monkey faces in coconuts.
(c) They do hours of calisthenics.
(d) They play in the jungle by day and drink with the prostitutes by night.

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

5. What is the result for half of the men after they return from Cinderella Liberty?
(a) Bad cases of alcohol poisoning from cheap whiskey
(b) Denial of any further liberty
(c) Dysentary for three days
(d) Monster hangovers and Venereal Disease

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Caputo call the training for war?

2. What is the misconception the platoon has when they are deployed to Vietnam?

3. What reality soon sets in for Caputo?

4. How does Caputo explain Peterson's walking away and not looking at Sullivan after he is shot?

5. What is the meaning of Sympathetic Detonation?

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