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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. When the Vietnamese children try to sell bottles of Coke, why do the men refuse them?
(a) They have no time to drink a Coke.
(b) They do not want to deprive the children.
(c) Coke is a weapon often laced with poison or ground glass.
(d) In that weather the Cokes are all spoiled.

2. What is the result for half of the men after they return from Cinderella Liberty?
(a) Bad cases of alcohol poisoning from cheap whiskey
(b) Dysentary for three days
(c) Monster hangovers and Venereal Disease
(d) Denial of any further liberty

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

4. Why do they get ready to move out to the war zone several times?
(a) It's a kind of war game they play.
(b) There are several false alarms of going to war, but none pan out .
(c) They want to be sure they know what to do.
(d) There is nothing better to do.

5. What happens about two hundred yards away from the village?
(a) They get lost and go around in a circle.
(b) An attack helicopter goes ahead of them to strafe the area.
(c) The Hill 267 howitzers shell near the place where they are.
(d) The invisible enemy opens automatic sniper fire on them.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Caputo and his platoon have in common?

2. What becomes of Vietnamese wounded in battle or victims of landmines?

3. Who are the only adults who pay attention to the Marines as they pass through Dogpatch?

4. In this first offensive, how do Caputo and his men see themselves?

5. What fills the foggy night after the pursuit of the VC and the body count?

Short Essay Questions

1. Sitting in the outpost ahead of C Company, what does Caputo have difficulty remembering?

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

3. Describe the Annamese Cordillera.

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

5. What mistake happens when they fire a three-point-five at the sniper who got Sullivan?

6. What does Caputo say the old salts used to tell him is the most memorable moment in an officer's life?

7. What does Caputo sense at his old base camp when he goes to collect his belongings?

8. What is Caputo's troublesome encounter with Sergeant Fred Wagoner?

9. Explain what Caputo says is the worst thing about hiking in the jungle.

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

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