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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Caputo explain Peterson's walking away and not looking at Sullivan after he is shot?
(a) He has no patience for stupidity.
(b) He thinks Marines have to be too tough.
(c) That is the way he is; he really loves this company.
(d) He never could stand the sight of blood.

2. What is Caputo's reply to an officer who says the PFCs are shooting at shadows again?
(a) He says,"Let them do it, it releases tension."
(b) He says, "you're probably right but what can we do about it?"
(c) He says, "It's okay because it will scare the VC."
(d) He says that shadows do not carry rifles that sound like an AK-47.

3. What is to be the measure of victory in the battle?
(a) The cessation of sniper fire
(b) The time it takes to finish clearing the area
(c) The cooperation of the ARVN
(d) The number of enemy corpses

4. What does Caputo say about the significance of a single death in war?
(a) After experiencing many deaths, the impact of one death diminishes.
(b) After so long a time, it has no significance at all.
(c) No matter how many you see, it never diminishes in effect.
(d) One developes a sense of better him than me.

5. Who has noticed the relaxed camp arrangements and tries to correct them?
(a) Maj-Gen Lew Walt
(b) Phil Caputo
(c) Colonel Anderson
(d) Captain Johnson

Short Answer Questions

1. What place do they pass through on the fourth day?

2. Why throw a grenade instead of firing a rifle in the dark?

3. Why are the Medivac helicopters unable to land to pick up casualties?

4. What names does Caputo recall from his platoon?

5. Where are most of the men when the orders come to deploy to Vietnam?

(see the answer key)

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