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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What causes the men to name one officer Captain Bligh?
(a) He pulls a rifle inspection on the line and reams out the whole platoon.
(b) He shouts at them for having dirty uniforms.
(c) He orders the men to drop and do pushups for him.
(d) He punches out a PFC for talking back to him.

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

4. What is going on inside the operations tent the night of the assault?
(a) Everything is in order and quiet.
(b) There is confusion and the colonel is staring at the map.
(c) The lights are put out so that the VC cannot see it as a target.
(d) Platoon leaders are being briefed on what to do.

5. What is the meaning of Sympathetic Detonation?
(a) Silent explosions.
(b) Explosives that fail to detonate.
(c) Mine fields that harm only the enemy.
(d) Military speak for an explosion caused by a US military error.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. From where does the attrition in 1st Battalion come?

3. Who never looks up as they cross the muddy paddies?

4. What does a cynic say about the Navy Crosses Corporal Gautier has won?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Caputo volunteer for the line?

2. Why is the old Vietnamese man lucky the night of the interrogation?

3. Coming across a clearing, how does Caputo manage to get to the other side?

4. What is so frustrating to Caputo during the trial?

5. How does the platoon snap and go on a rampage/

6. What does Caputo say about the effect of his job as Regimental Casualty Reporting Officer?

7. What work has to be done as the Regimental HQ is moved to Dai-La Pass?

8. Why are the men of C Company pleased about the treats sent to them?

9. Why does Caputo order the village fired upon by white phosphorus shells?

10. Why is the chaplain upset?

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