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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Lieutenant Tester want to know about Caputo's trip to Japan?
(a) The girls
(b) The bars
(c) The new arrivals
(d) The weather

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

3. What are Vietnamese children doing as the Marine trucks pass through the village called Dogpatch?
(a) Dancing on the edge of the dusty road
(b) Playing rock music on radios
(c) Throwing rocks at the trucks
(d) Begging for candy and cigarettes

4. At what age does Philip Caputo enlist in the Marine Corps?
(a) 18
(b) 19
(c) 20
(d) 21

5. What occurs as Caputo walks through the elephant grass in the jungle?
(a) He steps on a land mine that fortunately does not detonate.
(b) He is almost shot by Lance Corporal Skates.
(c) He comes face to face with a viet Cong.
(d) He walks up on an Asian elephant.

6. What place do they pass through on the fourth day?
(a) They pass through the LZ which has been destroyed
(b) They have to recross the muddy river
(c) Giao-Tri, the village they had destroyed
(d) The small camp where they found the documents

7. What familiar smells and sounds does Caputo comment on back at base camp?
(a) He mentions the smell of sweaty uniforms and the sound of the field radio.
(b) He mentions the oil and solvent used for cleaning rifles and the metallic sound of cleaning rods.
(c) He comments on the smell of spent ammunition and the sound of beetles.
(d) He mentions the smell of insect repellent and the sound of mosquitoes.

8. How is pursuit defined in the jungle of Vietnam?
(a) A joyous chase
(b) Like a surreal track meet
(c) A vicious, mud-bound manhunt
(d) As a regular forward march

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

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

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

12. Does Caputo believe the deployment is for real when he is told about it?
(a) Yes, but he is too stunned to know what to do.
(b) No, he ignores it and goes on drinking.
(c) Yes, he runs to the base to start packing.
(d) No, he calls the OD to make sure.

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

14. When the wounded VC's trail leads around a bend in the river, what choices does Caputo have?
(a) Go after him and risk an ambush or turn around and go back.
(b) Go around the bend himself or send a volunteer.
(c) Call for air cover or send a RP scout in to take a look.
(d) Assume the VC is dead or wait and watch for some movement.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When does Caputo say is the only bearable time of day in Vietnam?

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

3. What is Caputo's impression of the adjutant?

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

5. How do they get from Okinawa to Vietnam?

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