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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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) Everything is in order and quiet.
(c) Platoon leaders are being briefed on what to do.
(d) There is confusion and the colonel is staring at the map.

4. 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

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

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

7. Who issues ID cards to the Vietnamese?
(a) The US Embassy in Saigon
(b) The head man of each Vietnamese village
(c) Official ones by the Vietnamese government and forged ones by the VC.
(d) The provencial governments in the country

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

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

10. What is the warning as Caputo and his men head for Charlie Ridge?
(a) Watch out for quicksand.
(b) Watch out for those booby traps.
(c) Watch out for crocodiles.
(d) Watch out for sink holes.

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

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

13. What job takes up most of Caputo's time as assistant adjutant?
(a) Regimental Casualty Reporting Officer
(b) Regimental Secret and Confidential documents Officer
(c) Regimental Mess Officer
(d) Regimental Legal Officer

14. What begins happening at night at the Danang base?
(a) Marines are shown movies in the mess tent.
(b) The Chaplain begins holding midnight masses.
(c) The monsoon rains stop at night.
(d) VC begins a series of night sniper attacks on the base.

15. What is the only advantage the platoon has over the VC at Hoi-Vuc?
(a) The element of surprise is on their side.
(b) They hav better munitions.
(c) The sun is in the VC's eyes.
(d) They outnumber them.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why is Caputo angry that Crowe and his men do not bring in the suspected VC?

3. What is the name of the operation C Company is waiting to begin?

4. Where does Caputo notice the VC has cut the chain link fence to infiltrate the airfield?

5. What warning does Caputo receive after the destruction at Ha Na?

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