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

2. How much of the base does Caputo say has escaped the damage?
(a) Only a little
(b) Most of it
(c) About half
(d) Only the perimeters

3. From the ridge where they are located, why can the platoon not fire mortars at the VC?
(a) The men with mortars were all KIA.
(b) They cannot fire off of a slope.
(c) They are out of range.
(d) The mortars are frozen up.

4. What does Chaplain Ryerson call twelve KIAs?
(a) A dozen more prayers
(b) Twelve grieving families in America
(c) A dozen letters he has to write
(d) Twleve lost souls

5. What is the name of the operation C Company is waiting to begin?
(a) Operation Long Lance
(b) Operation Mountain Storm
(c) Operation Skyhawk
(d) Operation Ha Na

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does the paperwork in the adjutant's office appear to Caputo?

3. What does a cynic say about the Navy Crosses Corporal Gautier has won?

4. What comes by belatedly as Caputo watches?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How does the platoon snap and go on a rampage/

5. Why does Caputo order the village fired upon by white phosphorus shells?

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

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

8. Why does it take so long to launch Operation Long Lance?

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

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

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