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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do they do so that the VC corpses will not look recently uninterred?
(a) Throw loose dust on them
(b) Strip off their uniforms
(c) Hose them down
(d) Brush the dirt off

2. During the summer, how is life for the Vietnamese peasants?
(a) It is filled with apprehension about the VC.
(b) It is busy transplanting people to another area of the country.
(c) It is life as usual, working in the rice paddies.
(d) It is dead with no one working in the paddies.

3. What do Caputo and his platoon have in common?
(a) They all have the same tattoos.
(b) They all have the desire to stop sitting around and get to the business of war.
(c) They are all homesick and want to go back home.
(d) They all think they made a big mistake by enlisting.

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

5. What irony does Caputo see in the guerrilla warfare manual he had studied in the States?
(a) The remark that the jungle is only in Africa.
(b) The statement that one should not be afraid of the jungle.
(c) The suggestion that the enemy could not advance in the jungle.
(d) The idea that the jungle is only trees.

Short Answer Questions

1. What event does Caputo recall that further dims the idea of glamor in war?

2. What does GSW stand for?

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

4. What tale does Colonel Nickerson love to recount?

5. What is the concern when they follow another VC blood trail?

(see the answer key)

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