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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is an artillery attack denied when a patrol advancing to the base is spotted?
(a) A Marine patrol is lost out in the same area.
(b) No one has the exact coordinates.
(c) The higher commanders do not believe the report.
(d) New artillery ammunitions has not arrived.

2. What is it that Captain Neal wants from the platoon?
(a) A share of their cheese
(b) Explanations
(c) Better marksmanship
(d) VC bodies

3. What are WIAs and KIAs?
(a) Wounded in Action and Killed in Action
(b) Korean made cars used in Vietnam
(c) Types of weapons used at short range
(d) War Insurgent Actions and Korean Involvement Accounting

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

5. 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 mortars are frozen up.
(d) The men with mortars were all KIA.

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

7. How does Caputo classify Gen. Westmoreland?
(a) As a businessman
(b) As a public relations man
(c) As a figure head
(d) As a fighting man

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

9. What promise does Captain Neal make regardless of the ethic involved?
(a) Any Marine who kills a VC will be given a week's R and R.
(b) Any Marine who kills a VC will be given a promotion.
(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 flown back to base camp.

10. 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 falls into a trap and has to wait for rescue.
(c) He comes under heavy fire and dust is kicked up in his face.
(d) He gets hit in the arm but keeps going.

11. 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) There is confusion and the colonel is staring at the map.
(d) Platoon leaders are being briefed on what to do.

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

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

14. Where does Caputo notice the VC has cut the chain link fence to infiltrate the airfield?
(a) At the place his platoon had guarded when they first came to Danang airfield.
(b) On the back side near the planes.
(c) Near the mess hall which was vacant at night.
(d) Right behind the colonel's office tent.

15. 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, "It's okay because it will scare the VC."
(d) He says,"Let them do it, it releases tension."

Short Answer Questions

1. What comes by belatedly as Caputo watches?

2. What do they do so that the VC corpses will not look recently uninterred?

3. What is the warning as Caputo and his men head for Charlie Ridge?

4. What evidence do they find to show it is a VC attack?

5. From where does the attrition in 1st Battalion come?

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