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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the refrain the sergeant teaches the men during war training?
(a) Remember the Alamo!
(b) This is my rifle and this is my gun!
(c) She won't do it but her sister will!
(d) Ambush is murder and murder is fun!

2. What change does Caputo notice in his men back at their position on the hill?
(a) They have all truned gray haired.
(b) They have become even closer.
(c) They have grown apart and do not look at each other.
(d) They are withdrawn and wild-eyed.

3. What fills the foggy night after the pursuit of the VC and the body count?
(a) Roar of reconnaisance planes flying over
(b) Sounds of combat in the distance
(c) Total silence that is eerily unreal
(d) Deceptive sounds that keep everyone on edge

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

5. How does the Marine frontal assault look to Caputo?
(a) Like a perfect military maneuver
(b) Like a snake with two heads
(c) Nothing like the practice attacks at Quantico
(d) Like Hannibal crossing the Alps.

6. Where does Caputo go for advanced training?
(a) Ft. Bragg, NC
(b) Camp Pendleton, CA
(c) Fort Hood, TX
(d) Quantico, VA

7. 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 the Americans would never launch a full scale offensive.
(c) That Americans would not be supplied with live ammunition.
(d) That it is defensive only to free the ARVN to fight their war.

8. What sobering realization does Caputo come to after his service in Vietnam?
(a) He wants so badly to be a man in the middle of danger, that he did not realize he iss toying with death.
(b) That serving your country is a greater responsibility than anyone understands.
(c) That war is the only answer to the problems of the world.
(d) He is too young when he enlists to realize how boring the military really is.

9. Who seems to know what will happen better than the soldiers?
(a) The chaplains
(b) The prostitutes
(c) The telephone operators
(d) The messhall cooks

10. 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 covers her face with a scarf.
(c) How frightened she looks.
(d) How she looks on with complete passivity and without without expression.

11. 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.
(a) Instead of a phantom sniper, it is a whole division of phantoms.
(b) It is poorly organized but almost invisible.
(c) It is situated in places unseen in the daylight.
(d) Instead of an insurgency, it is an attack force.

12. What does Caputo say he learns later about the war in Vietnam?
(a) That there is never enough time to relax.
(b) That the Viet Cong ha plants in his platoon.
(c) That there would be days when there is no fighting.
(d) That nine-tenths of the time is waiting for the other one-tenth to happen.

13. 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

14. What does the village of Hua-Vuc conjure up in the minds of the Marines?
(a) It becomes synonymous with the war.
(b) It is situated like the training villages of Quantico.
(c) It becomes symbolic of weariness.
(d) It reminds them of Okinawa.

15. What does Caputo do at Camp Upshur, Virginia?
(a) He waits for his orders to go to basic training.
(b) He goes through basic training.
(c) He attends college classes.
(d) He gets his physical fitness examination.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the aim of Caputo's first entry into combat?

2. How does Caputo describe his platoon?

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

4. How is pursuit defined in the jungle of Vietnam?

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

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