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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 is the effect of burning magnesium?
(a) Incredible heat
(b) A column of white flame
(c) Like the lights on a football field at night
(d) The smell of rotten eggs

2. What tale does Colonel Nickerson love to recount?
(a) D-Day in Europe
(b) The landing at Guadalcanal
(c) His days at Quantico
(d) The taking of Phan Moon Jan

3. How does the paperwork in the adjutant's office appear to Caputo?
(a) It seems to be written in a foreign language.
(b) It seems to need a new filing system.
(c) It seems to be a truckload.
(d) It seems to be a simple task.

4. What evidence do they find to show it is a VC attack?
(a) They discover prints in the mud made by men without shoes.
(b) They find the spent cartridges from the snipers' rifles.
(c) They find a warning letter pinned to a palm tree.
(d) They bring in two bodies in the morning wearing Vietnamese regulation uniforms.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Elmer Fudd at division HQ?

2. Why do they have to grenade the VC trap twice?

3. For what operation is C Company ordered to prepare?

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

5. What is the stated purpose of leaving VC bodies behind the Colonel's tent?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. Why does Caputo volunteer for the line?

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

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

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

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