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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Caputo speculate about in regard to mines remaining in an area where the RPs are supposed to have cleared them?
(a) Either they are lazy or Viet Cong who had inflitrated them, leave the mines in place.
(b) There are just too many to find all of them.
(c) The RFs often clear the wrong field because of communication problems.
(d) The RFs lack the necessary equipment to do the job right.

2. A book by what author is Caputo trying to read while waiting at the outpost on top of a hill?
(a) Kipling
(b) Hemmingway
(c) Henry Miller
(d) James Joyce

3. What promise does Captain Neal make regardless of the ethic involved?
(a) Any Marine who kills a VC will be flown back to base camp.
(b) Any Marine who kills a certified VC will get beer and time to drink it.
(c) Any Marine who kills a VC will be given a promotion.
(d) Any Marine who kills a VC will be given a week's R and R.

4. What is the first offensive mission?
(a) Hide and ambush
(b) Search and destroy
(c) Hit and run
(d) Advance and wait

5. What do Caputo and Crowe do with grenades on the way to Hill 92?
(a) Juggle them like a circus act.
(b) Place them carefully to blow up a booby trap.
(c) Use them for apaerweights to hold down a map.
(d) Throw them at a fleeing VC.

Short Answer Questions

1. What comes by belatedly as Caputo watches?

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

3. Why do they get ready to move out to the war zone several times?

4. What is Colonel Nickerson's interest during this time?

5. How does Gonzales become the first casualty of Caputo's platoon?

(see the answer key)

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