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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the operation C Company is waiting to begin?
(a) Operation Long Lance
(b) Operation Skyhawk
(c) Operation Ha Na
(d) Operation Mountain Storm

2. Why are Caputo and the rest of the men so exhausted?
(a) They are tired because their boots and uniforms are soaked and heavy.
(b) They are tired from playing cards all night long.
(c) They are tired from over two hundred patrols in a month and the nights on the line.
(d) They are tired from carrying wounded Marines until the medevac can come.

3. What is Caputo's reply to an officer who says the PFCs are shooting at shadows again?
(a) He says, "It's okay because it will scare the VC."
(b) He says,"Let them do it, it releases tension."
(c) He says, "you're probably right but what can we do about it?"
(d) He says that shadows do not carry rifles that sound like an AK-47.

4. What does Chaplain Ryerson call twelve KIAs?
(a) A dozen letters he has to write
(b) Twleve lost souls
(c) A dozen more prayers
(d) Twelve grieving families in America

5. By the time Caputo transfers back to a line company in 1st Battalion, what are his convictions about the war?
(a) They have deteriorated to almost nothing.
(b) He has the same attitude he had when he arrived.
(c) He is more dedicated than ever.
(d) He almost never thinks about it.

6. What is a consistent reminder of the casualties of war.
(a) Announcements made over the PA system daily
(b) The Medivac helicopters flying back and forth in the dripping sky
(c) The faces one misses in the mess hall
(d) The number of body bags brought in each week

7. What do Caputo and Crowe do with grenades on the way to Hill 92?
(a) Place them carefully to blow up a booby trap.
(b) Juggle them like a circus act.
(c) Throw them at a fleeing VC.
(d) Use them for apaerweights to hold down a map.

8. What happens to the Battalion Headquarters during Operation Long Lance?
(a) Battalion HQ is attacked by a frightened water buffalo.
(b) They have to move farther back.
(c) The officers all leave on a helicopter.
(d) Eight officers and a number of enlisted men are killed.

9. 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) New artillery ammunitions has not arrived.
(c) A Marine patrol is lost out in the same area.
(d) No one has the exact coordinates.

10. Why does Caputo lose radio contact with one of his operators?
(a) A grenade cuts the land wire.
(b) The old outdated equipment breaks down.
(c) The radio operator is shot.
(d) A tree falls on the radio operator.

11. From the ridge where they are located, why can the platoon not fire mortars at the VC?
(a) They are out of range.
(b) They cannot fire off of a slope.
(c) The men with mortars were all KIA.
(d) The mortars are frozen up.

12. What warning does Caputo receive after the destruction at Ha Na?
(a) He will be relieved of command if anything like this happens again.
(b) He is risking his men when he lets them turn savage like that.
(c) He may be facing a serious reprimand if it happens again.
(d) He will have to stay on the front line if he cannot control his platoon.

13. Why do they have to grenade the VC trap twice?
(a) The trap is uncommonly huge.
(b) The first grenades are duds.
(c) The first two are in the wrong place.
(d) They just want to double check.

14. What happens to an old Vietnamese woman chewing a beetle?
(a) She is arrested and taken to HQ.
(b) She is tied to a water buffalo and sent into the paddies.
(c) McKenna shoots her when she spits beetle juice in his face.
(d) She dies of fright when she sees the soldiers.

15. Who is Elmer Fudd at division HQ?
(a) The chief cook at the officers' mess.
(b) A pet monkey captured in the jungle.
(c) The bald headed Lt. Colonel Executive Officer for Colonel Wheeler.
(d) The cartoon mascot of the division HQ.

Short Answer Questions

1. What causes the men to name one officer Captain Bligh?

2. What evidence do they find to show it is a VC attack?

3. What is Colonel Nickerson's interest during this time?

4. What are the new Marines of 1st Battalion like when they first arrive?

5. What is the only advantage the platoon has over the VC at Hoi-Vuc?

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