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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do they learn about military plans in the bush?
(a) Why there are always contingencies.
(b) Their Quantico training has really paid off.
(c) Nothing ever happens according to plan.
(d) How to avoid surprise.

2. What does Lemmon tell Caputo that Sullivan is doing when he gets shot?
(a) Filling canteens at the river
(b) Cleaning his rifle
(c) Operating the radio
(d) Patrolling the area

3. What are WIAs and KIAs?
(a) Types of weapons used at short range
(b) War Insurgent Actions and Korean Involvement Accounting
(c) Korean made cars used in Vietnam
(d) Wounded in Action and Killed in Action

4. What becomes of Vietnamese wounded in battle or victims of landmines?
(a) They take desk jobs in their headquarters.
(b) They are usually shot.
(c) They are put up in retirement homes.
(d) They are left to beg on the streets.

5. Where does Caputo go after being shown his sleeping quarters?
(a) Back up the hill to retrieve his belongings.
(b) To battalion HQ for a briefing.
(c) Back to Danang for a 2-day liberty.
(d) To the officers mess to get something to eat.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do they hear about right away?

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

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

4. How do the Marines return to base camp?

5. What sobering realization does Caputo come to after his service in Vietnam?

(see the answer key)

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