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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why does boredom get replaced with terror on the outpost hill?
(a) The fighting begins to move up the hill.
(b) Rock apes descend on the outpost.
(c) A VC almost infiltrates the outpost.
(d) Enemy fighters fly overhead.

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

4. Why is an artillery attack denied when a patrol advancing to the base is spotted?
(a) The higher commanders do not believe the report.
(b) A Marine patrol is lost out in the same area.
(c) New artillery ammunitions has not arrived.
(d) No one has the exact coordinates.

5. One night under attack, how does Sergeant Mora show up in a foxhole?
(a) Wearing a kimono he got in Japan
(b) Wearing a sheet
(c) Wearing nothing but his gun belt
(d) Wearing only his shirt

Short Answer Questions

1. What does he imagine being in the military will be like?

2. What are WIAs and KIAs?

3. What is Caputo's impression of the adjutant?

4. What reality soon sets in for Caputo?

5. What position does Battalion Headquarters take on identifying a Viet Cong?

(see the answer key)

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