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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 wounded VC's trail leads around a bend in the river, what choices does Caputo have?
(a) Go after him and risk an ambush or turn around and go back.
(b) Assume the VC is dead or wait and watch for some movement.
(c) Go around the bend himself or send a volunteer.
(d) Call for air cover or send a RP scout in to take a look.

2. Does Caputo believe the deployment is for real when he is told about it?
(a) No, he calls the OD to make sure.
(b) Yes, he runs to the base to start packing.
(c) Yes, but he is too stunned to know what to do.
(d) No, he ignores it and goes on drinking.

3. How do they spend their first day at Danang?
(a) Reading field manuals
(b) Packing and piling sandbags and digging foxholes and ditches
(c) Looking for a place to put their tents
(d) Getting a tour of the area

4. What change does Caputo notice in his men back at their position on the hill?
(a) They have all truned gray haired.
(b) They are withdrawn and wild-eyed.
(c) They have become even closer.
(d) They have grown apart and do not look at each other.

5. In the evening, why are the peasant girls rushing down the road to their village?
(a) They cannot find their way after dark.
(b) they are frightened by the American Marines.
(c) The rule is that Vietnamese outside after curfew are considered Viet Cong.
(d) The Viet Cong regularly passes that way in the darkness.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lieutenant Tester want to know about Caputo's trip to Japan?

2. What mistake does 2d Lt. Caputo make on a training exercise that gets him a reprimand?

3. Why is Caputo relieved that the dead boy had no identification on him?

4. How does the Marine frontal assault look to Caputo?

5. What are some of the things Caputo learns in Marine training?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Caputo and his 40-odd men get transported to the war zone?

2. Why do the men continually have to be reminded to keep five paces between them and the next man?

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

4. Describe the Annamese Cordillera.

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

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

7. Early on the morning of his first assignment to go into combat, what fantasy goes through Caputo's head?

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

9. Describe the platoon sergeant, William Campbell.

10. What happens to the machine-gunner named Parker as they wait for a convoy?

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