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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 15.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Big Ivan?
(a) The radio code name for the battery of howitzers used ahead of the troop movement into combat
(b) The radio communications system needed for orders on the combat
(c) The squadron of helicopters that will take the troops into combat
(d) The general who is overseeing the troop movement into combat

2. What lesson does Caputo learn that contradicts what he learned at Quantico?
(a) Not to stand up and give arm signals
(b) Not to shout orders to his men
(c) Not to lead a forced march
(d) Not to light up a cigarette

3. Who is Elmer Fudd at division HQ?
(a) The chief cook at the officers' mess.
(b) A pet monkey captured in the jungle.
(c) The cartoon mascot of the division HQ.
(d) The bald headed Lt. Colonel Executive Officer for Colonel Wheeler.

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

5. What booby traps are observed on the trail after fording the river?
(a) Vines rigged to pull a man into the air
(b) Trip wires and mines
(c) Poison stakes placed so that they are unseen until they scratch the skin
(d) Trenches, spider holes for snipers, pangee traps, and rows of sharp, angled stakes

Short Answer Questions

1. What are SLJOs?

2. In reality, how much time per day does the adjutant work require?

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

4. When does Caputo say is the only bearable time of day in Vietnam?

5. Why are Caputo and the rest of the men so exhausted?

(see the answer key)

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