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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who says in Chapter 3, “What we got to do over here is to kill all of them and let God sort them out”?
(a) Colonel King.
(b) Specialist Darcy.
(c) Corporal Pendleton.
(d) Corporal Rios.

2. What is the name of the song that Jonesy writes about the sandstorm in Chapter 4?
(a) “It’s a Long Way to Yesterday and a Longer Way til Tomorrow.”
(b) “I Wanna Sing You a Song Baby That Ain’t the Blues.”
(c) “I Hate Your Mother Worse Than I Hate This Sand Blues.”
(d) “Yesterday’s Blues and Tomorrow’s Rainbows.”

3. What is the name of the colonel that enters with Major Sessions at the meeting in Chapter 6?
(a) Colonel Smith.
(b) Colonel Lopez.
(c) Colonel Opdyke.
(d) Colonel Miller.

4. The narrator says in Chapter 6 that “the guys from the 3rd ID and the 4th Marines were bopping around Baghdad and getting on television” because they had been present when what was torn down?
(a) Saddam Hussein’s statue.
(b) The statue of Jalibah.
(c) The Berlin Wall.
(d) The Wall of China.

5. It is discussed between the narrator and his team in Chapter 3 the possibility of a battle between the Sunnis and what other sect?
(a) The Shiites.
(b) The Kurds.
(c) The Mevlevi Order.
(d) The Hindus.

Short Answer Questions

1. What phrase used in Chapter 6 refers to the uncertainty in situational awareness experienced by participants in military operations?

2. The location that Captain Coles tells the narrator they’re going to after changing directions in Chapter 5 is how far northeast from where they are now?

3. The character who introduces herself as Major Spring Sessions says in the opening of Chapter 1, “Gentlemen, ladies, welcome to” what location?

4. The dozen or soldiers that the narrator is a part of are acting as what team in Chapter 2?

5. In Chapter 2, the narrator states that “There were special detachments created for Medical, Construction, and Intelligence.” The Medical detachment people are said to be led by whom?

(see the answer key)

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