Vietnam War Writers Quiz

"When we marched into the rice paddies
on that damp March afternoon,
we carried, along with our packs and rifles,
the implicit convictions that the Vietcong could be quickly beaten.
We kept the packs and rifles;
the convictions, we lost."
-- Philip Caputo

The answers appear after the last question, number 16.

1. Who wrote Fields of Fire?

a. Asa Baber
b. Donald Duncan
c. Larry Hughes
d. James Webb

2. Who wrote Winners and Losers?

a. Daniel Ford
b. Leslie Gelb
c. Gloria Emerson
d. Bruce Grant

3. Who wrote 365 Days?

a. Ronald J. Glasser
b. Max Cleland
c. Malcolm Browne
d. Tom Tiede

4. Who wrote Friendly Fire?

a. Bruce Weigel
b. John Cassidy
c. Toby Brant
d. C. D. B. Bryan

5. Who wrote To What End?

a. Ward Just
b. Don Kowet
c. Timothy Lomperis
d. Mary McCarthy

6. Who wrote Born on the Fourth of July?

a. Richard Currey
b. Frederick Downs
c. Ron Kovic
d. Daniel Ellsberg

7. Who wrote The Green Berets?

a. John Wayne
b. Robin Moore
c. John Cook
d. Thomas Hakes

8. Who wrote Dog Soldiers?

a. Roger Hilsman
b. James Jones
c. Donald Kirk
d. Robert Stone

9. Who wrote The Grunts?

a. Charles Anderson
b. Tim O'Brien
c. Jerry Rubin
d. Sydney Schanberg

10. Who wrote A Rumor of War?

a. Samuel Vance
b. Keith Walter
c. Philip Caputo
d. Grant Zalin

11. Who wrote When Hell Was in Session?

a. Rodney Calvin
b. Clyde Taylor
c. Jeremiah Denton
d. Martin Binkin

12. Who wrote Dispatches?

a. Michael Herr
b. Michael Arlen
c. Daniel Hallin
d. Mike Gravel

13. Who wrote Prison Diary?

a. Ho Chi Minh
b. John Mueller
c. Bernard Brodie
d. Edward King

14. Who wrote Decent Interval?

a. Paul Starr
b. Robert Mole
c. Frank Snepp
d. Philip Rawson

15. Who wrote The Making of a Quagmire?

a. Chester Bain
b. Daniel Hall
c. Robert Turner
d. David Halberstam

16. Which woman writer wrote A Saigon Party:
And Other Vietnam War Short Stories?

a. Alice Walker
b. Diana Dell
c. Pearl Buck
d. Dorothy Parker

Answers: 1-d, 2-c, 3-a, 4-d, 5-a, 6-c, 7-b, 8-d, 9-a, 10-c, 11-c, 12-a, 13-a, 14-c, 15-d, 16-b

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