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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) Like a scary movie set
(c) Like VC soldier marching toward the line
(d) Various shades of black

2. What does Caputo observe about the young mother as they are searching her house?
(a) How she appreciates his putting everything back in place.
(b) How she looks on with complete passivity and without without expression.
(c) How frightened she looks.
(d) How she covers her face with a scarf.

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

4. What evidence do they find to show it is a VC attack?
(a) They find the spent cartridges from the snipers' rifles.
(b) They discover prints in the mud made by men without shoes.
(c) They find a warning letter pinned to a palm tree.
(d) They bring in two bodies in the morning wearing Vietnamese regulation uniforms.

5. What lesson does Caputo learn that contradicts what he learned at Quantico?
(a) Not to light up a cigarette
(b) Not to stand up and give arm signals
(c) Not to lead a forced march
(d) Not to shout orders to his men

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Caputo choose to enlist with the Marines?

2. What do they hear about right away?

3. What is the refrain the sergeant teaches the men during war training?

4. What do they do so that the VC corpses will not look recently uninterred?

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

(see the answer key)

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