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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where are most of the men when the orders come to deploy to Vietnam?
(a) Sitting on the beach surf fishing
(b) Out drinking and visiting the Okinawan prostitutes
(c) Asleep in their quarters
(d) On leave in Tokyo

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

3. How does Gonzales become the first casualty of Caputo's platoon?
(a) He comes down with malaria and dies.
(b) He is hit by a sniper when he gets out of his foxhole.
(c) He is laying wire where there are mines that had not been removed.
(d) Walking across the airstrip, he is hit by a helicopter.

4. What is the change that takes place at Hill 327?
(a) More work is done during the night than in the day.
(b) The food improves with better suply lines.
(c) The junior officers are all given new commands.
(d) The plan changes from defensive to offensive.

5. What famous speech inspires Caputo to join the military?
(a) King's "I have a dream" speech.
(b) Marc Anthony's "I came not to praise Caesar" speech
(c) Kennedy's inaugral "Ask what you can do for your country" speech.
(d) FDR's "Nothing to Fear" speech.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the village of Hua-Vuc conjure up in the minds of the Marines?

2. What is the concern when they follow another VC blood trail?

3. Where is Caputo's first command?

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

5. What is the real resistance walking from the L to the Vietnamese village?

(see the answer key)

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