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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 Caputo say is the second stage of soldiers in battle?
(a) Hatred for everything and everyone around you
(b) Drowsiness
(c) Disorientation
(d) Problems remembering specific things

2. What do they experience on their first night?
(a) At night they can see the flashes of bombs detonated.
(b) The night becomes unbearably cold.
(c) Night brings on a monsoon rain.
(d) Night brings sniper fire in the distance and swarms of biting insects.

3. After graduation from Loyola College, where does Caputo go?
(a) Quantico, VA
(b) Washington, D.C.
(c) Officers Basic School
(d) NCO School

4. What happens right under their noses as they settle into Danang?
(a) A dog is blown up as is a sandbag between two men in a foxhole.
(b) An open attack is launched by the Viet Cong.
(c) A private is killed by friendly fire.
(d) Dozens of B-52 bombers land to rearm.

5. What is everyone told about the war in the first briefing Caputo attends?
(a) That the Americans would never launch a full scale offensive.
(b) That the war had already effectively divided the country in half.
(c) That Americans would not be supplied with live ammunition.
(d) That it is defensive only to free the ARVN to fight their war.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is it difficult to round up the platoon?

2. How is pursuit defined in the jungle of Vietnam?

3. In the evening, why are the peasant girls rushing down the road to their village?

4. Why does Peterson call for an air strike on Hill 107?

5. What does Caputo say about the VC guerrillas being everywhere?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is the advantage on Hill 268 where Caputo's company is poistioned?

3. What is the sound of 155mm artillery firing?

4. Why does he say he fears being an unsat or a marginal?

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

6. What does Caputo recall when the helicopter he is in draws ground fire?

7. Explain why Caputo says that at age twenty-four he is more prepared for death than he is for life.

8. Why does the C-130 make a sudden steep assault-dive on the way to the war zone?

9. What do they find when they rush a base camp near the LZ?

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

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