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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long do Caputo and his platoon continue guarding the parameters at Danang?
(a) Six months
(b) Seven weeks
(c) Six days
(d) Over a month

2. What becomes of major importance to Caputo in those early days?
(a) Getting a Washington desk job
(b) Getting enough sleep
(c) Drinking and partying
(d) Getting the approval of his superiors

3. What does Caputo call the training for war?
(a) A little bit of hell
(b) The last torture
(c) The calm before the storm
(d) A subtle kind of mind control

4. What is Big Ivan?
(a) The radio communications system needed for orders on the combat
(b) The general who is overseeing the troop movement into combat
(c) The radio code name for the battery of howitzers used ahead of the troop movement into combat
(d) The squadron of helicopters that will take the troops into combat

5. What do they experience on their first night?
(a) At night they can see the flashes of bombs detonated.
(b) The night becomes unbearably cold.
(c) Night brings on a monsoon rain.
(d) Night brings sniper fire in the distance and swarms of biting insects.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. At what age does Philip Caputo enlist in the Marine Corps?

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

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

5. Where does Caputo go for advanced training?

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