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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Big Ivan?
(a) The general who is overseeing the troop movement into combat
(b) The radio communications system needed for orders on the combat
(c) The squadron of helicopters that will take the troops into combat
(d) The radio code name for the battery of howitzers used ahead of the troop movement into combat

2. How does Caputo see future life in the military?
(a) As good training for surviving natural disasters
(b) As an occasion for excitement and danger
(c) As financial security for the rest of his life
(d) As an easy way to make money

3. What does he imagine being in the military will be like?
(a) He imagines it will be like taking a vacation.
(b) He thinks it will be dull and routine.
(c) He thinks it will be frightening but he needs the money.
(d) He enters the war with romantic notions of being a hero.

4. Why does boredom get replaced with terror on the outpost hill?
(a) Enemy fighters fly overhead.
(b) Rock apes descend on the outpost.
(c) The fighting begins to move up the hill.
(d) A VC almost infiltrates the outpost.

5. What does Caputo speculate about in regard to mines remaining in an area where the RPs are supposed to have cleared them?
(a) The RFs lack the necessary equipment to do the job right.
(b) The RFs often clear the wrong field because of communication problems.
(c) There are just too many to find all of them.
(d) Either they are lazy or Viet Cong who had inflitrated them, leave the mines in place.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the Marines return to base camp?

2. How does the Marine frontal assault look to Caputo?

3. How do they get from Okinawa to Vietnam?

4. Where is Caputo's first command?

5. What is the real resistance walking from the L to the Vietnamese village?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the hospital corpsman tell Parker about his friend, Esposito?

2. What is the new warfare of the New Frontier?

3. What really causes the aloofness to Caputo at the base camp?

4. How does Caputo describe the way a soldier fighting in the jungle should act?

5. Describe the Annamese Cordillera.

6. What is it like for Caputo as they march back through Giao-Tri?

7. How do Caputo and his 40-odd men get transported to the war zone?

8. What is the first month like after the battalion reaches Vietnam?

9. How does the platoon receive Caputo's first lecture?

10. Describe the French Fort overlooking the paddies west of Hill 327.

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