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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. One night under attack, how does Sergeant Mora show up in a foxhole?
(a) Wearing a kimono he got in Japan
(b) Wearing a sheet
(c) Wearing nothing but his gun belt
(d) Wearing only his shirt

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

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

6. 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 is risking his men when he lets them turn savage like that.
(c) He may be facing a serious reprimand if it happens again.
(d) He will be relieved of command if anything like this happens again.

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

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

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

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

11. 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) He almost never thinks about it.
(c) He is more dedicated than ever.
(d) They have deteriorated to almost nothing.

12. Why is Caputo angry that Crowe and his men do not bring in the suspected VC?
(a) He is angry because of the high casualties they have suffered.
(b) He is angry because he needs some target practice.
(c) He is angry because he would have gotten credit for the capture.
(d) He is angry because he knows he will be blamed.

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

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

15. 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 happens with a large number of desertions.
(d) It is inflicted by the enemy and by themselves.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the joke Sgt. Hamilton says outside the adjutant's tent?

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

3. From the ridge where they are located, why can the platoon not fire mortars at the VC?

4. Who issues ID cards to the Vietnamese?

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

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