2. 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 week's R and R.
(d) Any Marine who kills a VC will be given a promotion.

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

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

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

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

7. 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

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

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

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

11. What is Caputo's reply to an officer who says the PFCs are shooting at shadows again?
(a) He says, "you're probably right but what can we do about it?"
(b) He says that shadows do not carry rifles that sound like an AK-47.
(c) He says,"Let them do it, it releases tension."
(d) He says, "It's okay because it will scare the VC."

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

13. What evidence do they find to show it is a VC attack?
(a) They discover prints in the mud made by men without shoes.
(b) They find a warning letter pinned to a palm tree.
(c) They bring in two bodies in the morning wearing Vietnamese regulation uniforms.
(d) They find the spent cartridges from the snipers' rifles.

14. During the summer, how is life for the Vietnamese peasants?
(a) It is busy transplanting people to another area of the country.
(b) It is life as usual, working in the rice paddies.
(c) It is dead with no one working in the paddies.
(d) It is filled with apprehension about the VC.

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