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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4 Illumination Rounds.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does the chapter's title come from?
(a) A popular song
(b) The nickname for the Tet Offensive
(c) A saying soldiers paint on their helmets
(d) A propaganda slogan

2. The brass declare what after the Tet Offensive?
(a) Defeat
(b) Retreat
(c) They are pulling out of the war
(d) Victory

3. What does the photographer witness soldiers doing with VC bodies?
(a) Burying them in a mass grave
(b) Hanging them from trees
(c) Lighting them on fire
(d) Dropping them out of a helicopter

4. What was once the most beautiful city in Vietnam?
(a) Hue
(b) Saigon
(c) Ho Chi Minh
(d) China Beach

5. What sights upset Day Tripper?
(a) Piles of dead Vietnamese
(b) The NVA soldiers hanging on the wire fence
(c) Mayhew losing a leg
(d) Wounded

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Red Cross nurses offer soldiers returning from battle?

2. How many meters separate the bunkers and the NVA trenches?

3. What is the nickname Dink short for?

4. The Special Forces man who kills one enemy and frees one prisoner is rewarded for killing how many and rescuing how many?

5. What happens to South Vietnamese at Hue?

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