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

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

3. How does Caputo classify Gen. Westmoreland?
(a) As a fighting man
(b) As a public relations man
(c) As a businessman
(d) As a figure head

4. What is the stated purpose of leaving VC bodies behind the Colonel's tent?
(a) To give the Colonel a photo opportunity.
(b) To show the clerks what war looks like.
(c) To remind everyone why they are here.
(d) To flush out a VC infiltrator by scaring him.

5. How does Caputo describe the sounds of VC rifle fire?
(a) Snap, crackle, pop
(b) Tap, tap, tap
(c) Bam, bam, bam
(d) Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh

Short Answer Questions

1. From where does the attrition in 1st Battalion come?

2. What are the new Marines of 1st Battalion like when they first arrive?

3. What tale does Colonel Nickerson love to recount?

4. What evidence do they find to show it is a VC attack?

5. What do they do so that the VC corpses will not look recently uninterred?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. Why are the VC attacking with small arms each night for several days?

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