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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Lieutenant Reason goes out leading a platoon. How does he return?
(a) Leading a platoon of captured VC
(b) Riding in a convoy truck
(c) With machine gun bullet holes stitched across his belly
(d) On a helicopter carrying one of his wounded men

2. What happens for about twenty-five of the men?
(a) They fall ill from dengu fever.
(b) They are trucked to Danang for liberty.
(c) They are put on report for mistakes they made.
(d) They are the first to get medical exams for tropical diseases.

3. What reality soon sets in for Caputo?
(a) He has not been properly prepared by the Marines.
(b) He will never get to see military action.
(c) Battles are fought in the jungle with Viet Cong who refuse to play by the rules learned in military training.
(d) He has made a big mistake in joining the Marines.

4. Where are most of the men when the orders come to deploy to Vietnam?
(a) Asleep in their quarters
(b) On leave in Tokyo
(c) Out drinking and visiting the Okinawan prostitutes
(d) Sitting on the beach surf fishing

5. Why is there a great deal of physical work to be done as the monsoon season begins?
(a) The airfield is flooded and has to be elevated.
(b) Flood drain ditches have to be dug.
(c) The Regimental HQ is moved near the Dai-La pass.
(d) New tents and buildings have to be erected.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the paperwork in the adjutant's office appear to Caputo?

2. What happens to Caputo as he is crawling on his stomach to get back to his men?

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

4. What is the joke Sgt. Hamilton says outside the adjutant's tent?

5. What becomes of major importance to Caputo in those early days?

(see the answer key)

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