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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What meal does Caputo order in Saigon that surprises the French speaking waiter?
(a) Rice with nouac-mam sauce
(b) Six hamburgers and a pitcher of beer
(c) Chateaubriand and a bottle of red wine
(d) Spaghetti and a bottle of Chianti

2. When the Vietnamese children try to sell bottles of Coke, why do the men refuse them?
(a) They do not want to deprive the children.
(b) Coke is a weapon often laced with poison or ground glass.
(c) In that weather the Cokes are all spoiled.
(d) They have no time to drink a Coke.

3. What do they learn about military plans in the bush?
(a) Nothing ever happens according to plan.
(b) Their Quantico training has really paid off.
(c) Why there are always contingencies.
(d) How to avoid surprise.

4. How does Caputo describe his feeling after learning about the death and casualties?
(a) It is the remorse of not having been with his men.
(b) It is the detachment of unreality.
(c) It is the sadness of seeing his friends changed.
(d) It is the first time he feelst the slimy, hollow-cold fear of death.

5. What are WIAs and KIAs?
(a) Korean made cars used in Vietnam
(b) Types of weapons used at short range
(c) Wounded in Action and Killed in Action
(d) War Insurgent Actions and Korean Involvement Accounting

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the effect of burning magnesium?

2. What irony does Caputo see in the guerrilla warfare manual he had studied in the States?

3. What fills the foggy night after the pursuit of the VC and the body count?

4. What is the aim of Caputo's first entry into combat?

5. Why is there a great deal of physical work to be done as the monsoon season begins?

(see the answer key)

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