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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. During the summer, how is life for the Vietnamese peasants?
(a) It is dead with no one working in the paddies.
(b) It is life as usual, working in the rice paddies.
(c) It is filled with apprehension about the VC.
(d) It is busy transplanting people to another area of the country.

2. What are WIAs and KIAs?
(a) War Insurgent Actions and Korean Involvement Accounting
(b) Korean made cars used in Vietnam
(c) Types of weapons used at short range
(d) Wounded in Action and Killed in Action

3. What warning does Caputo receive after the destruction at Ha Na?
(a) He will be relieved of command if anything like this happens again.
(b) He may be facing a serious reprimand if it happens again.
(c) He will have to stay on the front line if he cannot control his platoon.
(d) He is risking his men when he lets them turn savage like that.

4. What is a consistent reminder of the casualties of war.
(a) The Medivac helicopters flying back and forth in the dripping sky
(b) Announcements made over the PA system daily
(c) The faces one misses in the mess hall
(d) The number of body bags brought in each week

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What promise does Captain Neal make regardless of the ethic involved?

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

3. What causes the men to name one officer Captain Bligh?

4. Where does Caputo notice the VC has cut the chain link fence to infiltrate the airfield?

5. What begins happening at night at the Danang base?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why is the chaplain upset?

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

4. Why does Caputo volunteer for the line?

5. What work has to be done as the Regimental HQ is moved to Dai-La Pass?

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

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

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

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

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

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