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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the three Skyhawks that arrive?
(a) Navy bombers that drop napalm bombs on the area
(b) Attack helicopters
(c) Long range artillery fire from Navy ships
(d) Large birds indigenous to Vietnam

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

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

4. What does the village of Hua-Vuc conjure up in the minds of the Marines?
(a) It becomes synonymous with the war.
(b) It reminds them of Okinawa.
(c) It becomes symbolic of weariness.
(d) It is situated like the training villages of Quantico.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Caputo almost trip over going through the high grass?

2. What is the aim of Caputo's first entry into combat?

3. In this first offensive, how do Caputo and his men see themselves?

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

5. How does the Marine frontal assault look to Caputo?

(see the answer key)

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