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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the change that takes place at Hill 327?
(a) The food improves with better suply lines.
(b) More work is done during the night than in the day.
(c) The junior officers are all given new commands.
(d) The plan changes from defensive to offensive.

2. What is everyone told about the war in the first briefing Caputo attends?
(a) That Americans would not be supplied with live ammunition.
(b) That it is defensive only to free the ARVN to fight their war.
(c) That the war had already effectively divided the country in half.
(d) That the Americans would never launch a full scale offensive.

3. At the new command, what does Caputo say the men do?
(a) They do hours of calisthenics.
(b) They play in the jungle by day and drink with the prostitutes by night.
(c) They work as extras for McHale's Navy.
(d) They carve monkey faces in coconuts.

4. Why throw a grenade instead of firing a rifle in the dark?
(a) The grenade will cover more territory.
(b) Rifle fire is a waste of ammunition.
(c) Grenades make more noise.
(d) The rifle fire could give away the soldier's position.

5. What looks beautiful from the hill but becomes ominous up close?
(a) The vietnamese villages
(b) The muddy colored river
(c) The orange smoke of artillery
(d) The Cordellia

Short Answer Questions

1. Who are the only adults who pay attention to the Marines as they pass through Dogpatch?

2. What does Caputo say accounts for many other casualties?

3. How does Caputo describe the Viet Cong division he first becomes aware of by looking at a site map, a map showing positions of allies and enemy in the field.

4. What is the aim of Caputo's first entry into combat?

5. What is the majority opinion about the countermanded orders to ship out?

(see the answer key)

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