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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What soldier who had been held out of the initial assault cut off a cast on his infected elbow so that he would be allowed to go fight in "Overrun"?
(a) Specalist Dale Sizemore.
(b) Lieutenant Colonel Dave McKnight.
(c) Captain Mike Steele.
(d) Sergeant Scott Galentine.

2. What is the Battle of Mogadishu referred to often as in popular culture?
(a) Conflict of the Damned.
(b) Black Hawk Down.
(c) The Knob Hill Conflict.
(d) Battle of the Bloody.

3. What do the Somalis refer to the Battle of Mogadishu as?
(a) Soldier Saturday.
(b) The American Infiltration.
(c) Yankee Week.
(d) The Day of the Rangers.

4. What medic ran toward the Super Six One and was shot in the ankle in "Overrun"?
(a) Sergeant First Class Paul Howe.
(b) Sergeant Lorenzo Ruiz.
(c) Master Sergeant Scott Fales.
(d) Specalist Dale Sizemore.

5. What is a group of elite Army Rangers trained to work independently in dangerous, often highly secretive missions?
(a) Chevron Division.
(b) Pinnacle Battalion.
(c) Delta Force.
(d) Apex Unit.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did President George H.W. Bush order the U.S. Armed Forces to join the U.N. in a joint operation known as Operation Restore Hope, with the primary mission of restoring order in Somalia?

2. Staff Sergeant Matt Eversmann's previous leader was sent home and the man's replacement was taken out of commission by what in "The Assault"?

3. What are the United States Navy's Sea, Air and Land Teams commonly known as?

4. What does LAW stand for?

5. 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?

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