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

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

3. Who are the only adults who pay attention to the Marines as they pass through Dogpatch?
(a) The Vietnamese Ruff-Puffs on leave
(b) The fruit venders
(c) The whores called Boom-Boom girls
(d) The local police

4. What does Caputo speculate about in regard to mines remaining in an area where the RPs are supposed to have cleared them?
(a) The RFs often clear the wrong field because of communication problems.
(b) Either they are lazy or Viet Cong who had inflitrated them, leave the mines in place.
(c) The RFs lack the necessary equipment to do the job right.
(d) There are just too many to find all of them.

5. What does Caputo say accounts for many other casualties?
(a) Heavy artillery fire that came mostly at night
(b) Sunstroke and accidents, accidental discharges of weapons, and disease
(c) Suicides and in-fighting
(d) Disorientation resulting in wandering from the camp

Short Answer Questions

1. Does Caputo believe the deployment is for real when he is told about it?

2. What is the change that takes place at Hill 327?

3. Where is Caputo's first command?

4. What happens with the ARVN scouts in the first offensive action?

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

(see the answer key)

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