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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. Where does Caputo go for advanced training?
(a) Fort Hood, TX
(b) Camp Pendleton, CA
(c) Quantico, VA
(d) Ft. Bragg, NC

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

3. How does the adjutant's quarters look as Caputo returns to Vietnam?
(a) A dugout with sandbag walls and a bamboo roof
(b) A revamped box car
(c) A water-soaked tent with makeshift furniture
(d) A prefab building with airconditioning

4. What is the change that takes place at Hill 327?
(a) More work is done during the night than in the day.
(b) The food improves with better suply lines.
(c) The junior officers are all given new commands.
(d) The plan changes from defensive to offensive.

5. How does Caputo describe his platoon?
(a) They are a group of strangers and misfits.
(b) As men who enlist, train and travel together from the beginning.
(c) As a highly polished fighting machine that needed no training.
(d) They are all uneducated and street fighters.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What game are Campbell and Greene playing in the NCO's tent when Caputo enters?

3. What happens when Caputo drinks with some Australian soldiers?

4. What happens right under their noses as they settle into Danang?

5. What do Caputo and his men discover as they pursue the wounded VC?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. Describe the Ruff-Puff's activity around the Beau Geste watchtowers.

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

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

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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