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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What fills the foggy night after the pursuit of the VC and the body count?
(a) Sounds of combat in the distance
(b) Deceptive sounds that keep everyone on edge
(c) Total silence that is eerily unreal
(d) Roar of reconnaisance planes flying over

2. 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.

3. What sobering realization does Caputo come to after his service in Vietnam?
(a) That serving your country is a greater responsibility than anyone understands.
(b) He wants so badly to be a man in the middle of danger, that he did not realize he iss toying with death.
(c) He is too young when he enlists to realize how boring the military really is.
(d) That war is the only answer to the problems of the world.

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

5. In this first offensive, how do Caputo and his men see themselves?
(a) As frightened school kids
(b) As boy scouts on a hike
(c) As unprepared for combat
(d) As knights in shining armor

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the village of Hua-Vuc conjure up in the minds of the Marines?

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

3. What is the real resistance walking from the L to the Vietnamese village?

4. What does Lemmon tell Caputo that Sullivan is doing when he gets shot?

5. What does Caputo observe about the young mother as they are searching her house?

(see the answer key)

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