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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 Lieutenant Tester want to know about Caputo's trip to Japan?
(a) The new arrivals
(b) The weather
(c) The bars
(d) The girls

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

3. What does Caputo say about the significance of a single death in war?
(a) After experiencing many deaths, the impact of one death diminishes.
(b) One developes a sense of better him than me.
(c) No matter how many you see, it never diminishes in effect.
(d) After so long a time, it has no significance at all.

4. What fills the foggy night after the pursuit of the VC and the body count?
(a) Roar of reconnaisance planes flying over
(b) Total silence that is eerily unreal
(c) Deceptive sounds that keep everyone on edge
(d) Sounds of combat in the distance

5. What casualties are suffered during the next two days?
(a) One more Marine is killed and several have a fever.
(b) No one is hit by enemy fire but six men have heatstroke.
(c) Two Marines are slightly wounded and others fall to the sun.
(d) Two Marines are slightly wounded and a third is critical.

Short Answer Questions

1. What familiar smells and sounds does Caputo comment on back at base camp?

2. Where does Caputo go after being shown his sleeping quarters?

3. What booby traps are observed on the trail after fording the river?

4. Who seems to know what will happen better than the soldiers?

5. What does Caputo speculate about in regard to mines remaining in an area where the RPs are supposed to have cleared them?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Caputo describe himself as he watches the action of the offensive from the hill?

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

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

4. How does Caputo mention perception and locale when talking about troop size?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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