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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Lemmon say they are trying to do while the Howies are strafing the area?
(a) Praying for rain
(b) Rescue civilians
(c) Looking for the LZ
(d) Running for cover

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

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

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

6. 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) 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) The RFs often clear the wrong field because of communication problems.

7. A book by what author is Caputo trying to read while waiting at the outpost on top of a hill?
(a) Kipling
(b) Henry Miller
(c) Hemmingway
(d) James Joyce

8. At the new command, what does Caputo say the men do?
(a) They do hours of calisthenics.
(b) They carve monkey faces in coconuts.
(c) They play in the jungle by day and drink with the prostitutes by night.
(d) They work as extras for McHale's Navy.

9. 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 others fall to the sun.
(c) Two Marines are slightly wounded and a third is critical.
(d) No one is hit by enemy fire but six men have heatstroke.

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

11. What happens about two hundred yards away from the village?
(a) They get lost and go around in a circle.
(b) The invisible enemy opens automatic sniper fire on them.
(c) An attack helicopter goes ahead of them to strafe the area.
(d) The Hill 267 howitzers shell near the place where they are.

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

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

14. How does Caputo describe the descent of a helicopter?
(a) Like a run down a ski slope
(b) Like standing in a high wind
(c) Like a roller coaster or a canoe rushing down the rapids
(d) Like a falling brick

15. Why is it difficult to round up the platoon?
(a) It is Sunday and they are all over the island.
(b) They hear the news and do not want to be found.
(c) They had gone on a night training hike.
(d) Many of them had gone AWOL.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Caputo observe about the young mother as they are searching her house?

2. What names does Caputo recall from his platoon?

3. Where are most of the men when the orders come to deploy to Vietnam?

4. What change does Caputo notice in his men back at their position on the hill?

5. What does Caputo say he learns later about the war in Vietnam?

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