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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who has noticed the relaxed camp arrangements and tries to correct them?
(a) Maj-Gen Lew Walt
(b) Colonel Anderson
(c) Phil Caputo
(d) Captain Johnson

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

4. What is Colonel Nickerson's interest during this time?
(a) Building a horseshoe pit
(b) Speeding up the defense preparations
(c) Getting a new command
(d) Regulating the drinking hours

5. At night on the line, what does everything look like?
(a) Like VC soldier marching toward the line
(b) Like a scary movie set
(c) Various shades of black
(d) Phosphorescent

6. What happens to Caputo as he is crawling on his stomach to get back to his men?
(a) He gets hit in the arm but keeps going.
(b) He comes under heavy fire and dust is kicked up in his face.
(c) He crawls up on a VC corpse.
(d) He falls into a trap and has to wait for rescue.

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

8. What meal does Caputo order in Saigon that surprises the French speaking waiter?
(a) Spaghetti and a bottle of Chianti
(b) Six hamburgers and a pitcher of beer
(c) Rice with nouac-mam sauce
(d) Chateaubriand and a bottle of red wine

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

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(c) The old outdated equipment breaks down.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

11. What are the Marines doing in the truck beds?
(a) Staying down under cover
(b) Holding up their rifles and yelling
(c) Firing at will
(d) Singing the Marine Hymn

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

13. 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 discover prints in the mud made by men without shoes.
(d) They bring in two bodies in the morning wearing Vietnamese regulation uniforms.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Caputo's reply to an officer who says the PFCs are shooting at shadows again?

2. How does the paperwork in the adjutant's office appear to Caputo?

3. What is the only advantage the platoon has over the VC at Hoi-Vuc?

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

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

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