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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I: Chapters 1-4 .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the narrator feel about "her"?
(a) He hates her.
(b) He thinks she's ridiculous.
(c) He feels sorry for her.
(d) He still loves her.

2. What are Yuxis?
(a) Sarat Chestnut's favorite kind of cookie.
(b) The type of jeans that Simon wore.
(c) The unfiltered cigarettes Benjamin Chestnut smoked.
(d) A plant the Chestnuts ground up to feed their chickens.

3. What kind of home does Sarat live in?
(a) Sarat lives in a cave along the riverbank.
(b) Sarat lives in a dilapidated, two-story wooden farmhouse.
(c) Sarat lives on a rusty old houseboat.
(d) Sarat lives in a corrugated steel container salvaged from the shipyard.

4. What killed 110 million people?
(a) The huge tsunami that hit the coast.
(b) The bombings in South Carolina.
(c) The drought that destroyed the food supplies.
(d) The Reunification Plague.

5. Who is the author of the novel American War?
(a) Benjamin Shaben.
(b) Omar El Akkad.
(c) Oscar Alouff.
(d) Bertold Brecht.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is the capital of the Federal government?

2. When the story opens, what is Sarat doing?

3. On what date did the Free Southern States declare their independence?

4. What is the name of the humanitarian organization that runs the refugee camp?

5. What piece of equipment had Simon sawed in half?

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