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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 Lieutenant Tester want to know about Caputo's trip to Japan?
(a) The bars
(b) The new arrivals
(c) The girls
(d) The weather

2. What is going on inside the operations tent the night of the assault?
(a) Everything is in order and quiet.
(b) There is confusion and the colonel is staring at the map.
(c) The lights are put out so that the VC cannot see it as a target.
(d) Platoon leaders are being briefed on what to do.

3. Lieutenant Reason goes out leading a platoon. How does he return?
(a) Leading a platoon of captured VC
(b) With machine gun bullet holes stitched across his belly
(c) Riding in a convoy truck
(d) On a helicopter carrying one of his wounded men

4. How is pursuit defined in the jungle of Vietnam?
(a) Like a surreal track meet
(b) A joyous chase
(c) As a regular forward march
(d) A vicious, mud-bound manhunt

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the stated interest of the U. S. government for war in Vietnam?

2. What happens when Caputo drinks with some Australian soldiers?

3. How does Caputo describe his platoon?

4. What job takes up most of Caputo's time as assistant adjutant?

5. How many men are on a helicopter team?

(see the answer key)

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