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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. One night under attack, how does Sergeant Mora show up in a foxhole?
(a) Wearing only his shirt
(b) Wearing nothing but his gun belt
(c) Wearing a kimono he got in Japan
(d) Wearing a sheet

2. Who issues ID cards to the Vietnamese?
(a) Official ones by the Vietnamese government and forged ones by the VC.
(b) The head man of each Vietnamese village
(c) The US Embassy in Saigon
(d) The provencial governments in the country

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

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

5. What job takes up most of Caputo's time as assistant adjutant?
(a) Regimental Legal Officer
(b) Regimental Secret and Confidential documents Officer
(c) Regimental Casualty Reporting Officer
(d) Regimental Mess Officer

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who has noticed the relaxed camp arrangements and tries to correct them?

3. After Caputo's dream, what vision does he have in the daylight?

4. What exhilarates Caputo after the Hoi-Vuc village wipe out?

5. What is the name of the operation C Company is waiting to begin?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. Describe the Marines in Caputo's dream platoon.

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

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

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

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