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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. 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) The big guns fire all night and he cannot sleep.
(d) He has dreams of Sullivan and the dead VC.

7. How does Caputo recall the two months after the Ha Na experience?
(a) It flickers on his mental screen like movies.
(b) He sees it as a total blackout, remembering nothing.
(c) He sees it as two months that seem like two years.
(d) He sees it in escruciating detail.

8. What are the three Skyhawks that arrive?
(a) Long range artillery fire from Navy ships
(b) Large birds indigenous to Vietnam
(c) Attack helicopters
(d) Navy bombers that drop napalm bombs on the area

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

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

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

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

13. Why does Caputo lose radio contact with one of his operators?
(a) A tree falls on the radio operator.
(b) A grenade cuts the land wire.
(c) The radio operator is shot.
(d) The old outdated equipment breaks down.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Caputo classify Gen. Westmoreland?

2. What happens to an old Vietnamese woman chewing a beetle?

3. Who issues ID cards to the Vietnamese?

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

5. What tale does Colonel Nickerson love to recount?

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