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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is a consistent reminder of the casualties of war.
(a) The number of body bags brought in each week
(b) The faces one misses in the mess hall
(c) The Medivac helicopters flying back and forth in the dripping sky
(d) Announcements made over the PA system daily

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

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

4. 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) At the place his platoon had guarded when they first came to Danang airfield.
(c) Near the mess hall which was vacant at night.
(d) Right behind the colonel's office tent.

5. What exhilarates Caputo after the Hoi-Vuc village wipe out?
(a) The prospect of a medal
(b) The close combat with the remaining VC
(c) The congratulations from his men
(d) The perfect way his platoon has performed.

6. What promise does Captain Neal make regardless of the ethic involved?
(a) Any Marine who kills a VC will be given a week's R and R.
(b) Any Marine who kills a VC will be flown back to base camp.
(c) Any Marine who kills a VC will be given a promotion.
(d) Any Marine who kills a certified VC will get beer and time to drink it.

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

8. 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) Riding in a convoy truck
(d) Leading a platoon of captured VC

9. What are WIAs and KIAs?
(a) Korean made cars used in Vietnam
(b) Types of weapons used at short range
(c) Wounded in Action and Killed in Action
(d) War Insurgent Actions and Korean Involvement Accounting

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

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

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

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

14. What happens to the Battalion Headquarters during Operation Long Lance?
(a) Eight officers and a number of enlisted men are killed.
(b) They have to move farther back.
(c) The officers all leave on a helicopter.
(d) Battalion HQ is attacked by a frightened water buffalo.

15. What happens during Caputo's first night as assistant adjutant?
(a) The base HQ comes under fire.
(b) The mosquitoes swarm outside his tent.
(c) He has dreams of Sullivan and the dead VC.
(d) The big guns fire all night and he cannot sleep.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are SLJOs?

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

3. What meal does Caputo order in Saigon that surprises the French speaking waiter?

4. For what operation is C Company ordered to prepare?

5. What job takes up most of Caputo's time as assistant adjutant?

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