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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the bar girls insist on before they will leave with a Marine?
(a) He must pay them up front for their services.
(b) He must go shower.
(c) He must get tested by a vietnamese doctor.
(d) He must buy them one drink.

2. What becomes of major importance to Caputo in those early days?
(a) Getting the approval of his superiors
(b) Getting enough sleep
(c) Drinking and partying
(d) Getting a Washington desk job

3. What does Caputo say accounts for many other casualties?
(a) Disorientation resulting in wandering from the camp
(b) Sunstroke and accidents, accidental discharges of weapons, and disease
(c) Suicides and in-fighting
(d) Heavy artillery fire that came mostly at night

4. Why is Caputo relieved that the dead boy had no identification on him?
(a) He doesn't want to know a name he can not pronounce.
(b) He doesn't want to have to explain to the boy's family.
(c) He won't have to fill out a lot of paperwork.
(d) He does not want to think of him as a person but as a dead enemy.

5. Why does Peterson call for an air strike on Hill 107?
(a) He intercepts a viet Cong communication.
(b) He has spotted Viet cong movement on the hill.
(c) He does not want combat going up a hill.
(d) He suspects an ambush.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Caputo speculate about in regard to mines remaining in an area where the RPs are supposed to have cleared them?

2. What is the meaning of Sympathetic Detonation?

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

4. How does Caputo describe the feelings of the men after the destruction of the village Giao-Tri?

5. Why does Caputo have to count VC bodies sent in for burial?

(see the answer key)

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