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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Caputo say is the second stage of soldiers in battle?
(a) Drowsiness
(b) Disorientation
(c) Hatred for everything and everyone around you
(d) Problems remembering specific things

3. What change does Caputo notice in his men back at their position on the hill?
(a) They have grown apart and do not look at each other.
(b) They have all truned gray haired.
(c) They have become even closer.
(d) They are withdrawn and wild-eyed.

4. What is the feeling of the brigade as the offensive begins?
(a) That it was just another drill.
(b) That they were outnumbered by the enemy.
(c) That they would all be killed.
(d) That they could win the war alone.

5. What looks beautiful from the hill but becomes ominous up close?
(a) The Cordellia
(b) The vietnamese villages
(c) The orange smoke of artillery
(d) The muddy colored river

Short Answer Questions

1. How long do Caputo and his platoon continue guarding the parameters at Danang?

2. Where does Caputo go for advanced training?

3. Where is Caputo's first command?

4. What fills the foggy night after the pursuit of the VC and the body count?

5. What place do they pass through on the fourth day?

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