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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What evidence do they find to show it is a VC attack?
(a) They bring in two bodies in the morning wearing Vietnamese regulation uniforms.
(b) They find a warning letter pinned to a palm tree.
(c) They discover prints in the mud made by men without shoes.
(d) They find the spent cartridges from the snipers' rifles.

3. What causes the men to name one officer Captain Bligh?
(a) He pulls a rifle inspection on the line and reams out the whole platoon.
(b) He shouts at them for having dirty uniforms.
(c) He punches out a PFC for talking back to him.
(d) He orders the men to drop and do pushups for him.

4. One night under attack, how does Sergeant Mora show up in a foxhole?
(a) Wearing a sheet
(b) Wearing nothing but his gun belt
(c) Wearing a kimono he got in Japan
(d) Wearing only his shirt

5. Who was the first KIA in 1st Battalion?
(a) The Battilion commander
(b) Peterson, who had been transferred.
(c) Corpsman Levy, a man Caputo knew.
(d) Sullivan

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

7. What are SLJOs?
(a) Stupid lieutenant job officers
(b) Sanitary latrine jar orders
(c) Silly little jar openers
(d) Shitty little jobs officers

8. Why are Caputo and the rest of the men so exhausted?
(a) They are tired because their boots and uniforms are soaked and heavy.
(b) They are tired from over two hundred patrols in a month and the nights on the line.
(c) They are tired from playing cards all night long.
(d) They are tired from carrying wounded Marines until the medevac can come.

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

10. What is the joke Sgt. Hamilton says outside the adjutant's tent?
(a) How do I get out of this chicken shit organization?
(b) I think it's time to get out of the kitchen.
(c) Charlie finally learned how to find the fuse.
(d) Someone should tell Charlie it is three days until the Fourth of July.

11. What does GSW stand for?
(a) Gold standard weapons
(b) Good strong workers
(c) Gunshot wound
(d) Gone south for the winter

12. What is the warning as Caputo and his men head for Charlie Ridge?
(a) Watch out for sink holes.
(b) Watch out for quicksand.
(c) Watch out for crocodiles.
(d) Watch out for those booby traps.

13. Where does Caputo notice the VC has cut the chain link fence to infiltrate the airfield?
(a) Right behind the colonel's office tent.
(b) At the place his platoon had guarded when they first came to Danang airfield.
(c) On the back side near the planes.
(d) Near the mess hall which was vacant at night.

14. How does the paperwork in the adjutant's office appear to Caputo?
(a) It seems to be a truckload.
(b) It seems to need a new filing system.
(c) It seems to be a simple task.
(d) It seems to be written in a foreign language.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the Marines doing in the truck beds?

2. What happens to a large number of the platoon down in a paddy?

3. Why is Caputo angry that Crowe and his men do not bring in the suspected VC?

4. Why does Caputo have to count VC bodies sent in for burial?

5. How does Caputo recall the two months after the Ha Na experience?

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