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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 does the village of Hua-Vuc conjure up in the minds of the Marines?
(a) It reminds them of Okinawa.
(b) It becomes synonymous with the war.
(c) It is situated like the training villages of Quantico.
(d) It becomes symbolic of weariness.

2. What does Caputo call the training for war?
(a) A little bit of hell
(b) The last torture
(c) The calm before the storm
(d) A subtle kind of mind control

3. When does Caputo say is the only bearable time of day in Vietnam?
(a) Mid-morning
(b) Midnight
(c) Early morning
(d) Sunset

4. What do Caputo and his men discover as they pursue the wounded VC?
(a) A tunnel too small for a Marine to enter
(b) A woman carrying a baby
(c) A cache of modern weapons
(d) A small base camp

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What casualties are suffered during the next two days?

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

3. How long do Caputo and his platoon continue guarding the parameters at Danang?

4. What is the majority opinion about the countermanded orders to ship out?

5. What is the aim of Caputo's first entry into combat?

Short Essay Questions

1. What always comes to Caputo's mind when he thinks of basic training?

2. When does Caputo have his first realization of someone trying to kill him?

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

4. Describe the Communist stronghold that Caputo first sees in Vietnam.

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

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

7. After a group of VC disappears once again, what does Caputo want to believe?

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

9. What is the news that makes Caputo sorry he is not there instead of being in Okinawa?

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

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