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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the acronym “RPG” refer to in the narrative?
(a) “Respected Public Guard.”
(b) “Rocket-Propelled Grenade.”
(c) “Retrograde Personnel Garrison.”
(d) “Radio-Protected Garrison.”

2. Where does Jonesy say they’re going out again in Chapter 12, which the narrator describes as running “through some of the worst territory for ambushes in Iraq”?
(a) Highway 7.
(b) Highway 4.
(c) Highway 20.
(d) Highway 10.

3. Jonesy says in Chapter 13, “The only dying that means anything is” what?
(a) “The dying of those you love.”
(b) “The dying that you see.”
(c) “The dying you’re a part of.”
(d) “Your own.”

4. What does the sheik tell the men from the CA unit to call him in Chapter 14?
(a) Faisal.
(b) Latif.
(c) Hamid.
(d) Muhammad.

5. What tribal leader has complained in the beginning of Chapter 14 that the Coalition was not protecting his people and that a number of young men from his area had been killed when they entered Fallujah?
(a) Muhammad Latif Al-Sadah.
(b) Ahmed Sabbat.
(c) Hamid Faisal Al-Sadah.
(d) Halima Telfah.

6. What term is used in Chapter 9 to describe “a 400-gallon water carrier that could be hitched onto the back of a truck”?
(a) A Bradley.
(b) A “water buffalo.”
(c) A “Cyclops.”
(d) A Humvee.

7. How old is Captain Coles’s daughter that has been hospitalized in Chapter 12?
(a) 3.
(b) 2.
(c) 9.
(d) 5.

8. What is the term used in Chapter 8 to refer to the person who leads prayers in a mosque?
(a) Jurist.
(b) Imam.
(c) Shah.
(d) Sultan.

9. Lieutenant Davis says in Chapter 10, “These people here have been at war for the last twenty or so years. Before they invaded Kuwait they were fighting with” whom?
(a) “Iran.”
(b) “Israel.”
(c) “Lebanon.”
(d) “Turkey.”

10. Private Perry describes seeing a whole truckload of notebooks and school supplies that arrived for the Iraqi children from where in the U.S. in Chapter 14?
(a) Forrest City, Arkansas.
(b) Memphis, Tennessee.
(c) Chicago, Illinois.
(d) Kansas City, Missouri.

11. On what date does Major Sessions tell the hospital administrator that the Iraqi boy they are looking for disappeared in Chapter 11?
(a) June 12.
(b) July 15.
(c) April 14.
(d) March 12.

12. Captain Coles says to Private Perry in Chapter 13 regarding the war, “It teaches you things, though. What it’s taught me is” what?
(a) “That I wish I’d followed my father’s advice and quit the military when I had a chance.”
(b) “That my former regrets are meaningless, and life is worth living in the moment.”
(c) “That I love my wife and family more than I knew, and a lot more than I ever told them.”
(d) “That I value my life more than I thought I did. And that I wish I were home with my family.”

13. During the two weeks that the CA unit stays in the Green Zone in Chapter 13, Perry says that “The only work we did for the entire time was unload a truckload of gifts from the Free Will Baptist Church” located where?
(a) Jackson, Mississippi.
(b) Martinsburg, West Virginia.
(c) Selena, California.
(d) Arkadelphia, Arkansas.

14. In his letter to Uncle Richie in Chapter 11, Private Perry writes that what keep changing and can even change in the middle of the day?
(a) The Rules of Engagement.
(b) The weather in Iraq.
(c) American sentiment regarding the war.
(d) The politics of the region.

15. Captain Coles comes to inform Perry’s unit after sunset in Chapter 10 that they will be escorting some Intelligence guys to a place in what district before sunrise?
(a) The Al-Uhaimir district.
(b) The An Nasiriyah district.
(c) The Rusafa district.
(d) The Kazimayn district.

Short Answer Questions

1. What woman soldier from the 507th is said to have been possibly raped during her capture in Chapter 8?

2. What is the name of the colonel from the 422nd that comes by and says a prayer with the “God Squad” for Pendleton in Chapter 13?

3. What magazine does Private Perry take out a subscription to in Chapter 13?

4. What word from Chapter 12 refers to a loose hooded cloak, typically woolen, traditionally worn by Arabs?

5. The Special Ops guys that Perry’s unit is escorting in Chapter 10 say that they got some information from the confession box that there’s an IED factory located where?

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