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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Caputo and Crowe do with grenades on the way to Hill 92?

2. What are WIAs and KIAs?

3. How does Caputo describe the sounds of VC rifle fire?

4. What is it that Captain Neal wants from the platoon?

5. What tale does Colonel Nickerson love to recount?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does Caputo volunteer for the line?

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

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

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

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

7. How serious are the results of the assault?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Imagine you were there in Caputo's platoon. Write a paper expressing your opinion of 2nd Lieutenant Caputo as he takes command of your platoon. Describe his personality and character as you see him from the point of view of an enlisted man or woman.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay about the American withdrawal from Vietnam. It has gone down in history as the first war the Americans ever lost. Express your opinion in the paper about how the pullout affected the worldwide view of America as a Democracy.

Essay Topic 3

Write a paper on the idealism of the young and inexperienced. Use Caputo and his platoon leaving Okinawa convinced they could end the war in a matter of days and the new arrivals of Battalion one-three as your examples. If possible relate that to some time in your life when you thought something might be a simple matter to solve even when more experienced people were telling you it was more difficult than you thought.

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