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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are some of the things Caputo learns in Marine training?
(a) Physical exercize, recommended reading, and filing of paperwork.
(b) Use of new technology, making homemade weapons, and disarming women combatants.
(c) Military protocol, military dress, military jargon, and Marine Corps traditions.
(d) Survival skills, Marine history, rules and regulations, weaponry, and how to kill.

2. What does he imagine being in the military will be like?
(a) He thinks it will be dull and routine.
(b) He imagines it will be like taking a vacation.
(c) He thinks it will be frightening but he needs the money.
(d) He enters the war with romantic notions of being a hero.

3. What mistake does 2d Lt. Caputo make on a training exercise that gets him a reprimand?
(a) He orders a retreat.
(b) He lights up a cigarette.
(c) He takes a nap while waiting for orders.
(d) He changes a captain's orders.

4. At what age does Philip Caputo enlist in the Marine Corps?
(a) 18
(b) 21
(c) 20
(d) 19

5. How do they get from Okinawa to Vietnam?
(a) They go on PT boats up the China Sea.
(b) They go in a PanAm chartered plane.
(c) They ship out on giant C-130 planes.
(d) They go on an aircraft carrier.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Caputo's first command?

2. What sobering realization does Caputo come to after his service in Vietnam?

3. After graduation from Loyola College, where does Caputo go?

4. At the new command, what does Caputo say the men do?

5. What is the stated interest of the U. S. government for war in Vietnam?

(see the answer key)

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