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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is the Tam Ky province located?
(a) West Vietnam.
(b) East Vietnam.
(c) North Vietnam.
(d) South Vietnam.

2. The platoon ends up in an area referred to as a _____ zone.
(a) Fire-free.
(b) No fly.
(c) Friendly fire.
(d) Killing.

3. Which of the following is not at least slightly injured in the blast?
(a) Hunter.
(b) Sells.
(c) Bell.
(d) Downs.

4. This section begins with which company engaging in a fierce battle?
(a) Delta.
(b) Dragon.
(c) Alpha.
(d) Beta.

5. Downs begins to question the military's _____ in regards to fighting the enemy.
(a) Tactics.
(b) Common sense.
(c) Strategy.
(d) Organization.

6. How many Vietcong are captured during the ambush?
(a) 14.
(b) 18.
(c) 11.
(d) 23.

7. Who shoots at the soldier?
(a) Vietcong officer.
(b) NVA soldier.
(c) Teenager.
(d) Old woman.

8. Who wants to execute the men in the bunker?
(a) Bell.
(b) Sells.
(c) Muto.
(d) Downs.

9. What is the name of the man that took over for RTO Mann?
(a) Jose.
(b) Muto.
(c) Rueto.
(d) Sells.

10. Back at the camp Sells orders Downs to hike _____ kilometers south of the bridge.
(a) 6.
(b) 5.
(c) 2.
(d) 3.

11. How many of the civilians get away?
(a) 1.
(b) 3.
(c) 2.
(d) 4.

12. The platoon decides to stop by two _____.
(a) Streams.
(b) Tree stumps.
(c) Wrecked Jeeps.
(d) Rice paddies.

13. What separates this area from the open ocean?
(a) Mountain.
(b) Sandbar.
(c) Cliff.
(d) Valley.

14. Downs convinces soldiers that he is a ____.
(a) Colonel.
(b) Wounded soldier.
(c) Visiting dignitary.
(d) Chaplain.

15. In a funny scene Downs decides to assist a man who has been in an accident with a _____.
(a) Cow.
(b) Tank.
(c) Bicycle.
(d) Jeep.

Short Answer Questions

1. Once he is in the village, Downs notices that the Vietnamese people there are poor and ____.

2. On what date does the platoon return to the bridge?

3. How many Vietcong were shot and killed by soldiers in the helicopter?

4. Which of the soldiers becomes isolated from the rest of the platoon?

5. Downs begins to think about going to ____ school.

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