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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. By the time Caputo transfers back to a line company in 1st Battalion, what are his convictions about the war?
(a) He is more dedicated than ever.
(b) He has the same attitude he had when he arrived.
(c) He almost never thinks about it.
(d) They have deteriorated to almost nothing.

2. What are the Marines doing in the truck beds?
(a) Staying down under cover
(b) Holding up their rifles and yelling
(c) Singing the Marine Hymn
(d) Firing at will

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

4. Why is an artillery attack denied when a patrol advancing to the base is spotted?
(a) A Marine patrol is lost out in the same area.
(b) No one has the exact coordinates.
(c) New artillery ammunitions has not arrived.
(d) The higher commanders do not believe the report.

5. Who never looks up as they cross the muddy paddies?
(a) An old farmer
(b) Three Vietnamese girls planting rice
(c) A water buffalo
(d) Some boys catching frogs

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What happens to an old Vietnamese woman chewing a beetle?

3. What comes by belatedly as Caputo watches?

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

5. What does GSW stand for?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Why does Caputo volunteer for the line?

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

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

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

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. How serious are the results of the assault?

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