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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What begins happening at night at the Danang base?
(a) VC begins a series of night sniper attacks on the base.
(b) The Chaplain begins holding midnight masses.
(c) The monsoon rains stop at night.
(d) Marines are shown movies in the mess tent.

2. How do the Marines return to base camp?
(a) Wagons pulled by water buffalo take them back.
(b) They wait for morning and go by helicopter.
(c) They have to march all the way back.
(d) A truck convoy picks them up.

3. Why do they get ready to move out to the war zone several times?
(a) It's a kind of war game they play.
(b) There are several false alarms of going to war, but none pan out .
(c) They want to be sure they know what to do.
(d) There is nothing better to do.

4. Why are Caputo and the rest of the men so exhausted?
(a) They are tired because their boots and uniforms are soaked and heavy.
(b) They are tired from playing cards all night long.
(c) They are tired from over two hundred patrols in a month and the nights on the line.
(d) They are tired from carrying wounded Marines until the medevac can come.

5. Why does Caputo have to count VC bodies sent in for burial?
(a) To make sure none of them are Americans.
(b) Company commanders tend to exaggerate body counts.
(c) There is no time to count them in the field.
(d) To make sure they are actually dead.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the prognosis for Powell's recovery after his heatstroke?

2. What irony does Caputo see in the guerrilla warfare manual he had studied in the States?

3. How does Caputo describe his platoon?

4. What names does Caputo recall from his platoon?

5. What are SLJOs?

(see the answer key)

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