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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Black Hawk Down.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many chalks under the command of Captain Steele would go into Mogadishu on October 3, in "The Assault"?
(a) 4.
(b) 2.
(c) 3.
(d) 5.

2. The Americans had assumed that what shot from the ground could never bring down a helicopter as large and powerful as a Black Hawk?
(a) Rifles.
(b) Flares.
(c) RPGs.
(d) Pistols.

3. Who was killed upon impact in the crash of Super Six One?
(a) One of the pilots.
(b) Both pilots.
(c) Ten Somalians.
(d) Two Somalians.

4. What refers to a confused hand-to-hand fight or struggle among several people?
(a) War.
(b) Jubilee.
(c) Construance.
(d) Melee.

5. Who was shot in the back when the Humvee convoy stopped to recover the injured in "Black Hawk Down"?
(a) Sergeant Scott Galentine.
(b) Master Sergeant Gary Gordon.
(c) Private Anton Berendsen.
(d) Sergeant Joyce.

Short Answer Questions

1. What refers to a specially trained team designed to go into a battlefield and rescue injured soldiers?

2. What is a group of elite Army Rangers trained to work independently in dangerous, often highly secretive missions?

3. Which of Staff Sergeant Matt Eversmann's men was shot in the shoulder in "The Assault"?

4. A week before the mission that brought Rangers, Delta operators, and SEALs into Mogadishu on October 3, a Black Hawk helicopter was shot down over Mogadishu by what?

5. Sergeant Jeff Struecker got lost on the way to what location, where his men were to wait to collect the captured prisoners and transport them back to the base in "The Assault"?

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