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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through “Prayer in the Furnace”.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What can the priest see in Rodriguez's face in the beginning of "Prayer in the Furnace"?
(a) Grief.
(b) Rage.
(c) Resentment.
(d) Hunger.

2. What does Chris suggests Nathan teach Iraqi widows in “Money as a Weapons System”?
(a) Beekeeping.
(b) Crocheting.
(c) How to read.
(d) Factory work.

3. What does the acronym OEF stand for in the narrative?
(a) Operation Engaged Fighting.
(b) Operational Engagement of Fiirst Deployed.
(c) Operation Enduring Freedom.
(d) Operation Extant Fury.

4. Who is the fellow Marine that points out the dogs drinking blood in "Redeployment"?
(a) Eicholtz.
(b) O'Leary.
(c) Weissert.
(d) Craig.

5. How would you describe the narrative style of the stories in Redeployment?
(a) They are all related in first-person from different perspectives.
(b) They are all related by the same first-person narrator.
(c) Half are related in first-person and half are related in third-person.
(d) They are all related from a third-person omniscient narrator.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose desk is Nathan instructed to take at his new office in Tikrit in “Money as a Weapons System”?

2. Where does Cpl Sweet get shot in "FRAGO"?

3. Who is described as "the sober Mormon" in "Redeployment"?

4. What does Doc use to treat Sweet's wound in "FRAGO"?

5. How does the narrator describe Rachel's demeanor in high school in "Bodies"?

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