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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does a cynic say about the Navy Crosses Corporal Gautier has won?
(a) The gold one they pin on you and the wooden one they put over you.
(b) They are not real. It is all a big publicity stunt.
(c) Who needs medals; give him a discharge.
(d) They will make nice wall decorations at home.

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

3. What is the meaning of Sympathetic Detonation?
(a) Silent explosions.
(b) Mine fields that harm only the enemy.
(c) Explosives that fail to detonate.
(d) Military speak for an explosion caused by a US military error.

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

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

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

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

8. What job takes up most of Caputo's time as assistant adjutant?
(a) Regimental Casualty Reporting Officer
(b) Regimental Legal Officer
(c) Regimental Mess Officer
(d) Regimental Secret and Confidential documents Officer

9. How does Caputo classify Gen. Westmoreland?
(a) As a fighting man
(b) As a public relations man
(c) As a businessman
(d) As a figure head

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. What is going on inside the operations tent the night of the assault?
(a) Everything is in order and quiet.
(b) There is confusion and the colonel is staring at the map.
(c) Platoon leaders are being briefed on what to do.
(d) The lights are put out so that the VC cannot see it as a target.

12. What happens to a large number of the platoon down in a paddy?
(a) They step into a quicksand bog.
(b) They get bogged down in the mud and have to fire from there.
(c) They take a wrong turn and get lost in some elephant grass.
(d) A homemade Claymore is tripped and there are nine casualties.

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

14. After Caputo's dream, what vision does he have in the daylight?
(a) He sees everything in slow motions.
(b) He sees ghosts of great military heroes.
(c) He sees the faces of Mora and Hamilton superimposed on dead bodies.
(d) He sees his photo in a newspaper obituary column.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What comes by belatedly as Caputo watches?

3. What is it that Captain Neal wants from the platoon?

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

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

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