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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 is the joke Sgt. Hamilton says outside the adjutant's tent?
(a) I think it's time to get out of the kitchen.
(b) Someone should tell Charlie it is three days until the Fourth of July.
(c) Charlie finally learned how to find the fuse.
(d) How do I get out of this chicken shit organization?

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

3. At night on the line, what does everything look like?
(a) Like a scary movie set
(b) Various shades of black
(c) Phosphorescent
(d) Like VC soldier marching toward the line

4. What do they do so that the VC corpses will not look recently uninterred?
(a) Throw loose dust on them
(b) Hose them down
(c) Brush the dirt off
(d) Strip off their uniforms

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to the Battalion Headquarters during Operation Long Lance?

2. What happens during Caputo's first night as assistant adjutant?

3. Who was the first KIA in 1st Battalion?

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

5. Why are Caputo and Crowe brought up on charges to face court martial?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Corporal Stasek say about the bodies the colonel wants left out for the clerks and General Thompson to see?

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

3. Why does it take so long to launch Operation Long Lance?

4. Why does Caputo volunteer for the line?

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

6. Under assault conditions, what is the assistant adjutant's responsibility?

7. What are some of the contradictions Caputo itemizes about the war?

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

9. How serious are the results of the assault?

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

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