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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Two.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why was the barracks hit?
(a) Because the Vietcong wanted to kill the soldiers.
(b) Because of its proximity to that target.
(c) Because it looks like an airplane hangar.
(d) Because the Vietcong have bad aim.

2. On the way, they suddenly come under fire and Rowe is the first to realize what?
(a) The goal is to keep them pinned down until another group of VC can cut them off so that they have no escape.
(b) They are going to die.
(c) The Vietcong are not the ones shooting at them.
(d) They are the only Americans left alive.

3. Rowe notes that on nights they show a movie in camp there is almost no what?
(a) Fighting.
(b) Stop in the fighting.
(c) Complaining.
(d) Noise.

4. The groups go into what?
(a) The now apparently deserted Vietcong camp.
(b) The now apparently deserted village.
(c) The fully-operational Vietcong camp.
(d) The bustling village.

5. Why do they have a layover here?
(a) The plane is having engine problems.
(b) The flight crew is being changed.
(c) The flight crew members are suffering from hang overs.
(d) The men are ill.

Short Answer Questions

1. Riggs stands up for them to others and Rowe decides that being one of Riggs' lieutenants is what?

2. To whom does Lowe barely have time to say goodbye?

3. What does Rowe find out later about the airstrip?

4. Rowe spends some time in what he calls the best assignment the Army offers, learning the language while spending a great deal of time doing what?

5. What happens to Lowe?

(see the answer key)

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