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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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) A homemade Claymore is tripped and there are nine casualties.
(c) They step into a quicksand bog.
(d) They get bogged down in the mud and have to fire from there.

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

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

5. Why are Caputo and Crowe brought up on charges to face court martial?
(a) They are charged with using white-phosphorus at close range.
(b) Some Vietnamese are shot standing still and not running.
(c) Crowe is blamed for killing the old woman under Caputo's orders.
(d) The boy, Le Dung, is killed and the village files a protest.

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

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

9. 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

10. How does the paperwork in the adjutant's office appear to Caputo?
(a) It seems to be a truckload.
(b) It seems to need a new filing system.
(c) It seems to be a simple task.
(d) It seems to be written in a foreign language.

11. By the time Caputo transfers back to a line company in 1st Battalion, what are his convictions about the war?
(a) He has the same attitude he had when he arrived.
(b) He is more dedicated than ever.
(c) They have deteriorated to almost nothing.
(d) He almost never thinks about it.

12. 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.

13. What are SLJOs?
(a) Sanitary latrine jar orders
(b) Stupid lieutenant job officers
(c) Shitty little jobs officers
(d) Silly little jar openers

14. What exhilarates Caputo after the Hoi-Vuc village wipe out?
(a) The congratulations from his men
(b) The perfect way his platoon has performed.
(c) The close combat with the remaining VC
(d) The prospect of a medal

15. What are the new Marines of 1st Battalion like when they first arrive?
(a) They are opposed to war.
(b) They are scared and unwilling.
(c) They are seasoned old timers.
(d) They are young and gung-ho about winning the war.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who has noticed the relaxed camp arrangements and tries to correct them?

2. What causes the men to name one officer Captain Bligh?

3. What promise does Captain Neal make regardless of the ethic involved?

4. What happens to Caputo as he is crawling on his stomach to get back to his men?

5. What happens during Caputo's first night as assistant adjutant?

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