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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. Why is an artillery attack denied when a patrol advancing to the base is spotted?
(a) No one has the exact coordinates.
(b) New artillery ammunitions has not arrived.
(c) The higher commanders do not believe the report.
(d) A Marine patrol is lost out in the same area.

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

6. Lieutenant Reason goes out leading a platoon. How does he return?
(a) On a helicopter carrying one of his wounded men
(b) With machine gun bullet holes stitched across his belly
(c) Leading a platoon of captured VC
(d) Riding in a convoy truck

7. 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.

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

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

10. 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 only his shirt
(d) Wearing a kimono he got in Japan

11. 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) It flickers on his mental screen like movies.
(d) He sees it as two months that seem like two years.

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

13. What begins happening at night at the Danang base?
(a) The monsoon rains stop at night.
(b) VC begins a series of night sniper attacks on the base.
(c) Marines are shown movies in the mess tent.
(d) The Chaplain begins holding midnight masses.

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

15. In reality, how much time per day does the adjutant work require?
(a) Three or four hours
(b) At least ten hours a day
(c) Six to eight hours per day
(d) Two hours in the mornings

Short Answer Questions

1. What are SLJOs?

2. What happens during Caputo's first night as assistant adjutant?

3. What are the three Skyhawks that arrive?

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

5. Who was the first KIA in 1st Battalion?

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