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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. How does Caputo recall the two months after the Ha Na experience?
(a) He sees it in escruciating detail.
(b) It flickers on his mental screen like movies.
(c) He sees it as two months that seem like two years.
(d) He sees it as a total blackout, remembering nothing.

2. What does a cynic say about the Navy Crosses Corporal Gautier has won?
(a) Who needs medals; give him a discharge.
(b) The gold one they pin on you and the wooden one they put over you.
(c) They are not real. It is all a big publicity stunt.
(d) They will make nice wall decorations at home.

3. What does GSW stand for?
(a) Gunshot wound
(b) Gone south for the winter
(c) Gold standard weapons
(d) Good strong workers

4. What evidence do they find to show it is a VC attack?
(a) They find the spent cartridges from the snipers' rifles.
(b) They discover prints in the mud made by men without shoes.
(c) They bring in two bodies in the morning wearing Vietnamese regulation uniforms.
(d) They find a warning letter pinned to a palm tree.

5. What are the three Skyhawks that arrive?
(a) Attack helicopters
(b) Long range artillery fire from Navy ships
(c) Navy bombers that drop napalm bombs on the area
(d) Large birds indigenous to Vietnam

Short Answer Questions

1. What tale does Colonel Nickerson love to recount?

2. What are the Marines doing in the truck beds?

3. What happens to Caputo as he is crawling on his stomach to get back to his men?

4. What meal does Caputo order in Saigon that surprises the French speaking waiter?

5. What are SLJOs?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why are the men of C Company pleased about the treats sent to them?

3. Under assault conditions, what is the assistant adjutant's responsibility?

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

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

6. What is the condition of the radio when Caputo gets it from inside the bunker?

7. Coming across a clearing, how does Caputo manage to get to the other side?

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

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

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

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