A Rumor of War Quiz | Four Week Quiz A

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A Rumor of War Quiz | Four Week Quiz A

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do they spend their first day at Danang?
(a) Looking for a place to put their tents
(b) Getting a tour of the area
(c) Reading field manuals
(d) Packing and piling sandbags and digging foxholes and ditches

2. What is the aim of Caputo's first entry into combat?
(a) Look for snipers and take them out.
(b) Scare the Viet Cong into retreat.
(c) Find a battalion and destroy it.
(d) Set up an outpost.

3. Who makes up Caputo's first command?
(a) New recruits from Alabama
(b) Men he went to basic training with
(c) Older, war experienced non-coms
(d) A group of forty Marines in the Third Marines Division

4. What booby traps are observed on the trail after fording the river?
(a) Trip wires and mines
(b) Vines rigged to pull a man into the air
(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

5. What is the prognosis for Powell's recovery after his heatstroke?
(a) Amnesia
(b) Paralysis
(c) Probable brain damage
(d) Damaged immune system

Short Answer Questions

1. What is everyone told about the war in the first briefing Caputo attends?

2. How do they get from Okinawa to Vietnam?

3. What is the feeling of the brigade as the offensive begins?

4. What mistake does 2d Lt. Caputo make on a training exercise that gets him a reprimand?

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

(see the answer key)

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