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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do they spend their first day at Danang?
(a) Getting a tour of the area
(b) Looking for a place to put their tents
(c) Packing and piling sandbags and digging foxholes and ditches
(d) Reading field manuals

2. What are some of the things Caputo learns in Marine training?
(a) Physical exercize, recommended reading, and filing of paperwork.
(b) Survival skills, Marine history, rules and regulations, weaponry, and how to kill.
(c) Military protocol, military dress, military jargon, and Marine Corps traditions.
(d) Use of new technology, making homemade weapons, and disarming women combatants.

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

4. During the summer, how is life for the Vietnamese peasants?
(a) It is busy transplanting people to another area of the country.
(b) It is dead with no one working in the paddies.
(c) It is filled with apprehension about the VC.
(d) It is life as usual, working in the rice paddies.

5. Where does Caputo notice the VC has cut the chain link fence to infiltrate the airfield?
(a) At the place his platoon had guarded when they first came to Danang airfield.
(b) On the back side near the planes.
(c) Near the mess hall which was vacant at night.
(d) Right behind the colonel's office tent.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is there a great deal of physical work to be done as the monsoon season begins?

2. What is the aim of Caputo's first entry into combat?

3. Why does Caputo choose to enlist with the Marines?

4. In reality, how much time per day does the adjutant work require?

5. What lesson does Caputo learn that contradicts what he learned at Quantico?

(see the answer key)

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