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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Caputo and his platoon have in common?
(a) They all have the desire to stop sitting around and get to the business of war.
(b) They all think they made a big mistake by enlisting.
(c) They are all homesick and want to go back home.
(d) They all have the same tattoos.

2. In this first offensive, how do Caputo and his men see themselves?
(a) As frightened school kids
(b) As boy scouts on a hike
(c) As knights in shining armor
(d) As unprepared for combat

3. What looks beautiful from the hill but becomes ominous up close?
(a) The orange smoke of artillery
(b) The muddy colored river
(c) The Cordellia
(d) The vietnamese villages

4. What is everyone told about the war in the first briefing Caputo attends?
(a) That the war had already effectively divided the country in half.
(b) That Americans would not be supplied with live ammunition.
(c) That the Americans would never launch a full scale offensive.
(d) That it is defensive only to free the ARVN to fight their war.

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

6. Why throw a grenade instead of firing a rifle in the dark?
(a) The grenade will cover more territory.
(b) Rifle fire is a waste of ammunition.
(c) The rifle fire could give away the soldier's position.
(d) Grenades make more noise.

7. What does Lemmon tell Caputo that Sullivan is doing when he gets shot?
(a) Operating the radio
(b) Filling canteens at the river
(c) Patrolling the area
(d) Cleaning his rifle

8. What game are Campbell and Greene playing in the NCO's tent when Caputo enters?
(a) Cribbage
(b) Poker
(c) Gin Rummy
(d) Canasta

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

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

11. How does Caputo describe his feeling after learning about the death and casualties?
(a) It is the first time he feelst the slimy, hollow-cold fear of death.
(b) It is the sadness of seeing his friends changed.
(c) It is the detachment of unreality.
(d) It is the remorse of not having been with his men.

12. When does Caputo say is the only bearable time of day in Vietnam?
(a) Sunset
(b) Mid-morning
(c) Early morning
(d) Midnight

13. Why does Peterson call for an air strike on Hill 107?
(a) He suspects an ambush.
(b) He intercepts a viet Cong communication.
(c) He has spotted Viet cong movement on the hill.
(d) He does not want combat going up a hill.

14. What does Caputo say about the VC guerrillas being everywhere?
(a) The VC know all the secrets of the jungles and tall grasses.
(b) They have to suppose that any Vietnamese is a VC.
(c) The Americans are always outnumbered.
(d) It is another way of saying nowhere.

15. What is Caputo's impression of the adjutant?
(a) Old and about ready for retirement
(b) A trim Marine ready for combat
(c) Overweight belly hanging over his belt and a large head
(d) Tall and gangly with big hands and feet

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens right under their noses as they settle into Danang?

2. Who makes up Caputo's first command?

3. What familiar smells and sounds does Caputo comment on back at base camp?

4. What is the concern when they follow another VC blood trail?

5. What occurs as Caputo walks through the elephant grass in the jungle?

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