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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the Marines doing in the truck beds?
(a) Firing at will
(b) Holding up their rifles and yelling
(c) Staying down under cover
(d) Singing the Marine Hymn

2. How does Caputo describe the sounds of VC rifle fire?
(a) Snap, crackle, pop
(b) Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh
(c) Tap, tap, tap
(d) Bam, bam, bam

3. What happens to an old Vietnamese woman chewing a beetle?
(a) She is arrested and taken to HQ.
(b) McKenna shoots her when she spits beetle juice in his face.
(c) She dies of fright when she sees the soldiers.
(d) She is tied to a water buffalo and sent into the paddies.

4. For what operation is C Company ordered to prepare?
(a) Operation Victor charlie
(b) Operation Hardest Mein
(c) Operation Harvest Moon
(d) Operation Blue Angel

5. What meal does Caputo order in Saigon that surprises the French speaking waiter?
(a) Spaghetti and a bottle of Chianti
(b) Rice with nouac-mam sauce
(c) Chateaubriand and a bottle of red wine
(d) Six hamburgers and a pitcher of beer

6. Why do they have to grenade the VC trap twice?
(a) The trap is uncommonly huge.
(b) The first two are in the wrong place.
(c) The first grenades are duds.
(d) They just want to double check.

7. How does Caputo recall the two months after the Ha Na experience?
(a) He sees it as a total blackout, remembering nothing.
(b) He sees it in escruciating detail.
(c) He sees it as two months that seem like two years.
(d) It flickers on his mental screen like movies.

8. By the time Caputo transfers back to a line company in 1st Battalion, what are his convictions about the war?
(a) He has the same attitude he had when he arrived.
(b) They have deteriorated to almost nothing.
(c) He is more dedicated than ever.
(d) He almost never thinks about it.

9. What does Chaplain Ryerson call twelve KIAs?
(a) Twleve lost souls
(b) A dozen letters he has to write
(c) Twelve grieving families in America
(d) A dozen more prayers

10. What is the only advantage the platoon has over the VC at Hoi-Vuc?
(a) They hav better munitions.
(b) They outnumber them.
(c) The sun is in the VC's eyes.
(d) The element of surprise is on their side.

11. During the summer, how is life for the Vietnamese peasants?
(a) It is life as usual, working in the rice paddies.
(b) It is busy transplanting people to another area of the country.
(c) It is filled with apprehension about the VC.
(d) It is dead with no one working in the paddies.

12. What is the effect of burning magnesium?
(a) Incredible heat
(b) The smell of rotten eggs
(c) Like the lights on a football field at night
(d) A column of white flame

13. What do they do so that the VC corpses will not look recently uninterred?
(a) Brush the dirt off
(b) Throw loose dust on them
(c) Strip off their uniforms
(d) Hose them down

14. What warning does Caputo receive after the destruction at Ha Na?
(a) He is risking his men when he lets them turn savage like that.
(b) He will have to stay on the front line if he cannot control his platoon.
(c) He may be facing a serious reprimand if it happens again.
(d) He will be relieved of command if anything like this happens again.

15. Why is there a great deal of physical work to be done as the monsoon season begins?
(a) New tents and buildings have to be erected.
(b) The Regimental HQ is moved near the Dai-La pass.
(c) Flood drain ditches have to be dug.
(d) The airfield is flooded and has to be elevated.

Short Answer Questions

1. What evidence do they find to show it is a VC attack?

2. How much of the base does Caputo say has escaped the damage?

3. What do Caputo and Crowe do with grenades on the way to Hill 92?

4. What causes the men to name one officer Captain Bligh?

5. What exhilarates Caputo after the Hoi-Vuc village wipe out?

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