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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. In reality, how much time per day does the adjutant work require?
(a) Two hours in the mornings
(b) Three or four hours
(c) At least ten hours a day
(d) Six to eight hours per day

2. What is Colonel Nickerson's interest during this time?
(a) Getting a new command
(b) Regulating the drinking hours
(c) Building a horseshoe pit
(d) Speeding up the defense preparations

3. Who has noticed the relaxed camp arrangements and tries to correct them?
(a) Captain Johnson
(b) Colonel Anderson
(c) Phil Caputo
(d) Maj-Gen Lew Walt

4. What do they do so that the VC corpses will not look recently uninterred?
(a) Brush the dirt off
(b) Throw loose dust on them
(c) Hose them down
(d) Strip off their uniforms

5. What happens to Caputo as he is crawling on his stomach to get back to his men?
(a) He crawls up on a VC corpse.
(b) He gets hit in the arm but keeps going.
(c) He falls into a trap and has to wait for rescue.
(d) He comes under heavy fire and dust is kicked up in his face.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Caputo describe the sounds of VC rifle fire?

2. Why is there a great deal of physical work to be done as the monsoon season begins?

3. What is the only advantage the platoon has over the VC at Hoi-Vuc?

4. During the summer, how is life for the Vietnamese peasants?

5. What happens to a large number of the platoon down in a paddy?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is the chaplain upset?

2. What is Caputo's opinion of Maj-Gen Lew Walt the night of the first VC assault on the battalion base camp?

3. What are some of the contradictions Caputo itemizes about the war?

4. What becomes Caputo's chief responsibility and how does he begin to see himself?

5. What does Corporal Stasek say about the bodies the colonel wants left out for the clerks and General Thompson to see?

6. What is so frustrating to Caputo during the trial?

7. What does Caputo say about the effect of his job as Regimental Casualty Reporting Officer?

8. What is the ridiculous hold up in getting the evac helicopters to the platoon?

9. Why is the old Vietnamese man lucky the night of the interrogation?

10. What effect does Colonel Nickerson have on the morale of the Marines?

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