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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What promise does Captain Neal make regardless of the ethic involved?
(a) Any Marine who kills a VC will be given a promotion.
(b) Any Marine who kills a VC will be given a week's R and R.
(c) Any Marine who kills a certified VC will get beer and time to drink it.
(d) Any Marine who kills a VC will be flown back to base camp.
2. What happens to an old Vietnamese woman chewing a beetle?
(a) She is tied to a water buffalo and sent into the paddies.
(b) She dies of fright when she sees the soldiers.
(c) McKenna shoots her when she spits beetle juice in his face.
(d) She is arrested and taken to HQ.
3. How much of the base does Caputo say has escaped the damage?
(a) Most of it
(b) Only the perimeters
(c) About half
(d) Only a little
4. What tale does Colonel Nickerson love to recount?
(a) D-Day in Europe
(b) The taking of Phan Moon Jan
(c) The landing at Guadalcanal
(d) His days at Quantico
5. What does GSW stand for?
(a) Gunshot wound
(b) Good strong workers
(c) Gone south for the winter
(d) Gold standard weapons
6. What is the only advantage the platoon has over the VC at Hoi-Vuc?
(a) The element of surprise is on their side.
(b) The sun is in the VC's eyes.
(c) They outnumber them.
(d) They hav better munitions.
7. Why does Caputo have to count VC bodies sent in for burial?
(a) Company commanders tend to exaggerate body counts.
(b) To make sure none of them are Americans.
(c) There is no time to count them in the field.
(d) To make sure they are actually dead.
8. What comes by belatedly as Caputo watches?
(a) A line of foot soldiers carrying bazookas
(b) A convoy of Marines pulling howitzers
(c) A convoy of generals
(d) A battalion of riot police
9. What is the joke Sgt. Hamilton says outside the adjutant's tent?
(a) Charlie finally learned how to find the fuse.
(b) Someone should tell Charlie it is three days until the Fourth of July.
(c) I think it's time to get out of the kitchen.
(d) How do I get out of this chicken shit organization?
10. What begins happening at night at the Danang base?
(a) The monsoon rains stop at night.
(b) Marines are shown movies in the mess tent.
(c) The Chaplain begins holding midnight masses.
(d) VC begins a series of night sniper attacks on the base.
11. What happens during Caputo's first night as assistant adjutant?
(a) The mosquitoes swarm outside his tent.
(b) The base HQ comes under fire.
(c) The big guns fire all night and he cannot sleep.
(d) He has dreams of Sullivan and the dead VC.
12. Lieutenant Reason goes out leading a platoon. How does he return?
(a) On a helicopter carrying one of his wounded men
(b) Leading a platoon of captured VC
(c) Riding in a convoy truck
(d) With machine gun bullet holes stitched across his belly
13. After Caputo's dream, what vision does he have in the daylight?
(a) He sees everything in slow motions.
(b) He sees the faces of Mora and Hamilton superimposed on dead bodies.
(c) He sees his photo in a newspaper obituary column.
(d) He sees ghosts of great military heroes.
14. What causes the men to name one officer Captain Bligh?
(a) He punches out a PFC for talking back to him.
(b) He shouts at them for having dirty uniforms.
(c) He orders the men to drop and do pushups for him.
(d) He pulls a rifle inspection on the line and reams out the whole platoon.
15. Why does Caputo lose radio contact with one of his operators?
(a) A tree falls on the radio operator.
(b) A grenade cuts the land wire.
(c) The old outdated equipment breaks down.
(d) The radio operator is shot.
Short Answer Questions
1. Why are Caputo and the rest of the men so exhausted?
2. Why are Caputo and Crowe brought up on charges to face court martial?
3. What exhilarates Caputo after the Hoi-Vuc village wipe out?
4. How does Caputo describe the sounds of VC rifle fire?
5. What are the Marines doing in the truck beds?
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