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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Caputo and Crowe do with grenades on the way to Hill 92?
(a) Juggle them like a circus act.
(b) Place them carefully to blow up a booby trap.
(c) Throw them at a fleeing VC.
(d) Use them for apaerweights to hold down a map.

2. What is Caputo's reply to an officer who says the PFCs are shooting at shadows again?
(a) He says, "It's okay because it will scare the VC."
(b) He says, "you're probably right but what can we do about it?"
(c) He says,"Let them do it, it releases tension."
(d) He says that shadows do not carry rifles that sound like an AK-47.

3. Why does Caputo have to count VC bodies sent in for burial?
(a) There is no time to count them in the field.
(b) To make sure they are actually dead.
(c) To make sure none of them are Americans.
(d) Company commanders tend to exaggerate body counts.

4. What tale does Colonel Nickerson love to recount?
(a) The taking of Phan Moon Jan
(b) The landing at Guadalcanal
(c) D-Day in Europe
(d) His days at Quantico

5. Who issues ID cards to the Vietnamese?
(a) The head man of each Vietnamese village
(b) The US Embassy in Saigon
(c) The provencial governments in the country
(d) Official ones by the Vietnamese government and forged ones by the VC.

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

7. How much of the base does Caputo say has escaped the damage?
(a) Most of it
(b) About half
(c) Only a little
(d) Only the perimeters

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

9. What is the name of the operation C Company is waiting to begin?
(a) Operation Ha Na
(b) Operation Skyhawk
(c) Operation Long Lance
(d) Operation Mountain Storm

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

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

12. What comes by belatedly as Caputo watches?
(a) A convoy of Marines pulling howitzers
(b) A convoy of generals
(c) A line of foot soldiers carrying bazookas
(d) A battalion of riot police

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

14. From where does the attrition in 1st Battalion come?
(a) It comes from recall of Marines to other war fronts.
(b) It comes through serious diseases.
(c) It is inflicted by the enemy and by themselves.
(d) It happens with a large number of desertions.

15. Who is Elmer Fudd at division HQ?
(a) The bald headed Lt. Colonel Executive Officer for Colonel Wheeler.
(b) The chief cook at the officers' mess.
(c) A pet monkey captured in the jungle.
(d) The cartoon mascot of the division HQ.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does GSW stand for?

2. What do they do so that the VC corpses will not look recently uninterred?

3. What is the warning as Caputo and his men head for Charlie Ridge?

4. Why is an artillery attack denied when a patrol advancing to the base is spotted?

5. What does a cynic say about the Navy Crosses Corporal Gautier has won?

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