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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 18.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In the evening, why are the peasant girls rushing down the road to their village?
(a) they are frightened by the American Marines.
(b) They cannot find their way after dark.
(c) The rule is that Vietnamese outside after curfew are considered Viet Cong.
(d) The Viet Cong regularly passes that way in the darkness.

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

4. Why is Caputo relieved that the dead boy had no identification on him?
(a) He won't have to fill out a lot of paperwork.
(b) He doesn't want to know a name he can not pronounce.
(c) He doesn't want to have to explain to the boy's family.
(d) He does not want to think of him as a person but as a dead enemy.

5. What happens for about twenty-five of the men?
(a) They are put on report for mistakes they made.
(b) They fall ill from dengu fever.
(c) They are trucked to Danang for liberty.
(d) They are the first to get medical exams for tropical diseases.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why does boredom get replaced with terror on the outpost hill?

3. What is it that Captain Neal wants from the platoon?

4. Where are most of the men when the orders come to deploy to Vietnam?

5. What does Caputo say he learns later about the war in Vietnam?

(see the answer key)

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