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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 job takes up most of Caputo's time as assistant adjutant?

2. What are the three Skyhawks that arrive?

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

4. What is Colonel Nickerson's interest during this time?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How serious are the results of the assault?

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

3. Why is the chaplain upset?

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

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

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

7. What becomes Caputo's chief responsibility and how does he begin to see himself?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Hurry up and wait is a common complaint in the military. However, it is not a phenomenon limited to the armed forces. Write a paper discussing everyday situations where we must meet appointments only to have to sit and wait. [e.g., the doctor's or dentist's office, the DMV, a long line at a movie premier, etc.] Make this paper as humorous as possible.

Essay Topic 2

Discomfort is never pleasant. Using the book, write about some of the worst situations in terms of comfort and express your opinion about how well you would deal with them. Some examples you might use are the leeches, immersion foot, sleeping in several inches of water in a foxhole, trying to sleep with large artillery going off all night, having only C Rations to eat, etc.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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