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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 new arrivals
(b) The bars
(c) The girls
(d) The weather

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

3. In the evening, why are the peasant girls rushing down the road to their village?
(a) They cannot find their way after dark.
(b) The Viet Cong regularly passes that way in the darkness.
(c) The rule is that Vietnamese outside after curfew are considered Viet Cong.
(d) they are frightened by the American Marines.

4. What mistake does 2d Lt. Caputo make on a training exercise that gets him a reprimand?
(a) He orders a retreat.
(b) He lights up a cigarette.
(c) He changes a captain's orders.
(d) He takes a nap while waiting for orders.

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

6. What do they hear about right away?
(a) They hear of death and paralysis for some soldiers.
(b) They hear of a possible surrender of the Viet Cong.
(c) They hear that Saigon has fallen.
(d) They hear that they will go to the front lines.

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

8. What position does Battalion Headquarters take on identifying a Viet Cong?
(a) If he has a Russian made gun, he is a Viet Cong.
(b) If the acts suspiciously, he is a Viet Cong.
(c) If he attempts to hide, he is a Viet Cong.
(d) If he is dead and Vietnamese, he is a Viet Cong.

9. How does the adjutant's quarters look as Caputo returns to Vietnam?
(a) A prefab building with airconditioning
(b) A water-soaked tent with makeshift furniture
(c) A revamped box car
(d) A dugout with sandbag walls and a bamboo roof

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

11. 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.

12. What is the feeling of the brigade as the offensive begins?
(a) That it was just another drill.
(b) That they were outnumbered by the enemy.
(c) That they could win the war alone.
(d) That they would all be killed.

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

14. What do Caputo and his men discover as they pursue the wounded VC?
(a) A woman carrying a baby
(b) A tunnel too small for a Marine to enter
(c) A cache of modern weapons
(d) A small base camp

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What reality soon sets in for Caputo?

2. Why does Peterson call for an air strike on Hill 107?

3. Why does boredom get replaced with terror on the outpost hill?

4. How does Caputo describe his platoon?

5. How does Caputo describe the descent of a helicopter?

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