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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long do Caputo and his platoon continue guarding the parameters at Danang?
(a) Seven weeks
(b) Six days
(c) Over a month
(d) Six months

2. What is the landmark near C Company's assignment southwest of Danang?
(a) Alpha Range
(b) Charlie Ridge
(c) Elephant butte
(d) Phanom Phen

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

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

5. Why do they get ready to move out to the war zone several times?
(a) They want to be sure they know what to do.
(b) There are several false alarms of going to war, but none pan out .
(c) There is nothing better to do.
(d) It's a kind of war game they play.

6. How do they spend their first day at Danang?
(a) Reading field manuals
(b) Getting a tour of the area
(c) Looking for a place to put their tents
(d) Packing and piling sandbags and digging foxholes and ditches

7. What names does Caputo recall from his platoon?
(a) Men with whom he played poker and drank beer
(b) Men who either died or were severely wounded in combat
(c) Men who always followed his orders to the letter
(d) Men who caused him the most grief

8. What irony does Caputo see in the guerrilla warfare manual he had studied in the States?
(a) The suggestion that the enemy could not advance in the jungle.
(b) The remark that the jungle is only in Africa.
(c) The statement that one should not be afraid of the jungle.
(d) The idea that the jungle is only trees.

9. Where is Caputo's first command?
(a) The Philippines
(b) Danang, Vietnam
(c) Seoul, Korea
(d) Okinawa, Japan

10. 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 walks up on an Asian elephant.
(d) He comes face to face with a viet Cong.

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

12. What is the concern when they follow another VC blood trail?
(a) That they would not find him alive to take as a prisoner.
(b) That his wounds are not serious and he would get away.
(c) That it will actually be one of their own men.
(d) That he could be hidden waiting to take some of them with him.

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

14. Why does boredom get replaced with terror on the outpost hill?
(a) Enemy fighters fly overhead.
(b) Rock apes descend on the outpost.
(c) The fighting begins to move up the hill.
(d) A VC almost infiltrates the outpost.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens when Caputo drinks with some Australian soldiers?

2. What is the first offensive mission?

3. What does Caputo say accounts for many other casualties?

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. Why is it difficult to round up the platoon?

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