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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What happens to a large number of the platoon down in a paddy?
(a) They step into a quicksand bog.
(b) They take a wrong turn and get lost in some elephant grass.
(c) They get bogged down in the mud and have to fire from there.
(d) A homemade Claymore is tripped and there are nine casualties.

3. From the ridge where they are located, why can the platoon not fire mortars at the VC?
(a) They cannot fire off of a slope.
(b) They are out of range.
(c) The men with mortars were all KIA.
(d) The mortars are frozen up.

4. Why are Caputo and the rest of the men so exhausted?
(a) They are tired from carrying wounded Marines until the medevac can come.
(b) They are tired because their boots and uniforms are soaked and heavy.
(c) They are tired from over two hundred patrols in a month and the nights on the line.
(d) They are tired from playing cards all night long.

5. How does Caputo describe the sounds of VC rifle fire?
(a) Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh
(b) Bam, bam, bam
(c) Tap, tap, tap
(d) Snap, crackle, pop

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

7. What does a cynic say about the Navy Crosses Corporal Gautier has won?
(a) They are not real. It is all a big publicity stunt.
(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 will make nice wall decorations at home.

8. 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 week's R and R.
(c) Any Marine who kills a certified VC will get beer and time to drink it.
(d) Any Marine who kills a VC will be given a promotion.

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

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

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

12. 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.

13. What causes the men to name one officer Captain Bligh?
(a) He shouts at them for having dirty uniforms.
(b) He punches out a PFC for talking back to him.
(c) He pulls a rifle inspection on the line and reams out the whole platoon.
(d) He orders the men to drop and do pushups for him.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who issues ID cards to the Vietnamese?

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

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

4. What is the stated purpose of leaving VC bodies behind the Colonel's tent?

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

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