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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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) A grenade cuts the land wire.
(d) The old outdated equipment breaks down.

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. 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.

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

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

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

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

15. What is the joke Sgt. Hamilton says outside the adjutant's tent?
(a) I think it's time to get out of the kitchen.
(b) How do I get out of this chicken shit organization?
(c) Charlie finally learned how to find the fuse.
(d) Someone should tell Charlie it is three days until the Fourth of July.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are SLJOs?

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

3. What is going on inside the operations tent the night of the assault?

4. What is it that Captain Neal wants from the platoon?

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

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