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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does Caputo describe his platoon?
(a) They are all uneducated and street fighters.
(b) As a highly polished fighting machine that needed no training.
(c) As men who enlist, train and travel together from the beginning.
(d) They are a group of strangers and misfits.

3. What does Caputo say is the second stage of soldiers in battle?
(a) Drowsiness
(b) Hatred for everything and everyone around you
(c) Disorientation
(d) Problems remembering specific things

4. What is the first offensive mission?
(a) Hide and ambush
(b) Advance and wait
(c) Hit and run
(d) Search and destroy

5. What do they hear about right away?
(a) They hear of death and paralysis for some soldiers.
(b) They hear that Saigon has fallen.
(c) They hear that they will go to the front lines.
(d) They hear of a possible surrender of the Viet Cong.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are Vietnamese children doing as the Marine trucks pass through the village called Dogpatch?

2. What is Big Ivan?

3. How do they spend their first day at Danang?

4. How many men are on a helicopter team?

5. Who makes up Caputo's first command?

(see the answer key)

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