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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What refers to a specially trained team designed to go into a battlefield and rescue injured soldiers?
(a) TRAS.
(b) ZONK.
(c) MARS.
(d) CSAR.

3. What refers to a canceled or postponed space flight, launching, scheduled part of a space mission, etc.?
(a) Scrub.
(b) D-Lay.
(c) X'd.
(d) Fail.

4. What refers to a group of people, as a clique, set, society, or party, especially as united by some common trait, characteristic, or interest?
(a) Pod.
(b) Flock.
(c) Gang.
(d) Clan.

5. Who was a warlord of the Haber Gidr clan in Mogadishu who took it upon himself to steal food sent to his country as aid to help those suffering from years of civil war and kept it from the people in an attempt to control them?
(a) Abdullahi "Firimbi" Hassan.
(b) Abdiaziz Ali Aden.
(c) Mohamed Farrah Aidid.
(d) Abdullahi Farrah Hassan.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many of his men did Staff Sergeant Matt Eversmann send with Blackburn after his injury in "The Assault"?

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

3. What does NOD stand for?

4. What were burning in the street when the first of the helicopters began to converge on the skies above the cities in "The Assault"?

5. How many chalks under the command of Captain Steele would go into Mogadishu on October 3, in "The Assault"?

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