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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does he imagine being in the military will be like?
(a) He thinks it will be dull and routine.
(b) He imagines it will be like taking a vacation.
(c) He thinks it will be frightening but he needs the money.
(d) He enters the war with romantic notions of being a hero.

2. What do the bar girls insist on before they will leave with a Marine?
(a) He must pay them up front for their services.
(b) He must go shower.
(c) He must buy them one drink.
(d) He must get tested by a vietnamese doctor.

3. What does Caputo call the training for war?
(a) A little bit of hell
(b) A subtle kind of mind control
(c) The last torture
(d) The calm before the storm

4. Who are the only adults who pay attention to the Marines as they pass through Dogpatch?
(a) The whores called Boom-Boom girls
(b) The local police
(c) The fruit venders
(d) The Vietnamese Ruff-Puffs on leave

5. What casualties are suffered during the next two days?
(a) No one is hit by enemy fire but six men have heatstroke.
(b) Two Marines are slightly wounded and others fall to the sun.
(c) One more Marine is killed and several have a fever.
(d) Two Marines are slightly wounded and a third is critical.

6. Why does Caputo choose to enlist with the Marines?
(a) He did not want to be on a ship or fly an airplane.
(b) It was the only branch of the service accepting volunteers at the time.
(c) He thought the Marines had the best dress uniforms.
(d) It promises to fulfill all his expectations more than any other branch of the service.

7. What does Caputo say accounts for many other casualties?
(a) Heavy artillery fire that came mostly at night
(b) Sunstroke and accidents, accidental discharges of weapons, and disease
(c) Disorientation resulting in wandering from the camp
(d) Suicides and in-fighting

8. What is the prognosis for Powell's recovery after his heatstroke?
(a) Probable brain damage
(b) Damaged immune system
(c) Amnesia
(d) Paralysis

9. Who makes up Caputo's first command?
(a) New recruits from Alabama
(b) Older, war experienced non-coms
(c) Men he went to basic training with
(d) A group of forty Marines in the Third Marines Division

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

11. What mistake does 2d Lt. Caputo make on a training exercise that gets him a reprimand?
(a) He changes a captain's orders.
(b) He orders a retreat.
(c) He takes a nap while waiting for orders.
(d) He lights up a cigarette.

12. How does the adjutant's quarters look as Caputo returns to Vietnam?
(a) A prefab building with airconditioning
(b) A revamped box car
(c) A water-soaked tent with makeshift furniture
(d) A dugout with sandbag walls and a bamboo roof

13. In the evening, why are the peasant girls rushing down the road to their village?
(a) The rule is that Vietnamese outside after curfew are considered Viet Cong.
(b) They cannot find their way after dark.
(c) they are frightened by the American Marines.
(d) The Viet Cong regularly passes that way in the darkness.

14. What is the change that takes place at Hill 327?
(a) The plan changes from defensive to offensive.
(b) More work is done during the night than in the day.
(c) The food improves with better suply lines.
(d) The junior officers are all given new commands.

15. What is the misconception the platoon has when they are deployed to Vietnam?
(a) The Marines enter a war they think they cannot lose.
(b) The Marines are sure they will not become casualties.
(c) The Marines think it will all be over in a week.
(d) The Marines believe they can win the war single handedly.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Caputo see future life in the military?

2. Where does Caputo go after being shown his sleeping quarters?

3. What do they experience on their first night?

4. How does Caputo describe the Viet Cong division he first becomes aware of by looking at a site map, a map showing positions of allies and enemy in the field.

5. What does Caputo do at Camp Upshur, Virginia?

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