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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 18.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At night on the line, what does everything look like?
(a) Phosphorescent
(b) Various shades of black
(c) Like a scary movie set
(d) Like VC soldier marching toward the line

2. What is the aim of Caputo's first entry into combat?
(a) Find a battalion and destroy it.
(b) Set up an outpost.
(c) Scare the Viet Cong into retreat.
(d) Look for snipers and take them out.

3. 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.

4. When does Caputo say is the only bearable time of day in Vietnam?
(a) Midnight
(b) Mid-morning
(c) Sunset
(d) Early morning

5. At the new command, what does Caputo say the men do?
(a) They carve monkey faces in coconuts.
(b) They do hours of calisthenics.
(c) They play in the jungle by day and drink with the prostitutes by night.
(d) They work as extras for McHale's Navy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does a cynic say about the Navy Crosses Corporal Gautier has won?

2. In the evening, why are the peasant girls rushing down the road to their village?

3. What famous speech inspires Caputo to join the military?

4. What lesson does Caputo learn that contradicts what he learned at Quantico?

5. What is to be the measure of victory in the battle?

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