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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Lemmon say they are trying to do while the Howies are strafing the area?
(a) Looking for the LZ
(b) Running for cover
(c) Rescue civilians
(d) Praying for rain

2. What does Lieutenant Tester want to know about Caputo's trip to Japan?
(a) The new arrivals
(b) The girls
(c) The bars
(d) The weather

3. How does Caputo describe the Viet Cong division he first becomes aware of by looking at a site map, a map showing positions of allies and enemy in the field.
(a) It is situated in places unseen in the daylight.
(b) Instead of an insurgency, it is an attack force.
(c) It is poorly organized but almost invisible.
(d) Instead of a phantom sniper, it is a whole division of phantoms.

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

5. How does the Marine frontal assault look to Caputo?
(a) Like Hannibal crossing the Alps.
(b) Like a snake with two heads
(c) Nothing like the practice attacks at Quantico
(d) Like a perfect military maneuver

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the adjutant's quarters look as Caputo returns to Vietnam?

2. What is the feeling of the brigade as the offensive begins?

3. What do Caputo and his men discover as they pursue the wounded VC?

4. What does Caputo do at Camp Upshur, Virginia?

5. In this first offensive, how do Caputo and his men see themselves?

(see the answer key)

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