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

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. Who directed the field hospital at the base, choosing who to treat and who was too badly wounded to waste time on in "The Alamo"?
(a) Sergeant First Class Paul Howe.
(b) Corporal Jamie Smith.
(c) Major Rob Marsh.
(d) Captain Mike Steele.

3. What refers to a confused hand-to-hand fight or struggle among several people?
(a) Construance.
(b) Jubilee.
(c) Melee.
(d) War.

4. Sergeant Jeff Struecker got lost on the way to what location, where his men were to wait to collect the captured prisoners and transport them back to the base in "The Assault"?
(a) The mosque.
(b) The warlord's house.
(c) The Olympic Hotel.
(d) The U.S. Embassy.

5. Who gave a gun to Durant before returning to the nose of the aircraft to continue fighting off the Somalis in "Overrun"?
(a) Warrant Officer Mike Durant.
(b) Master Sergeant Gary Gordon.
(c) Private First Class Todd Blackburn.
(d) Sergeant First Class Randy Shughart.

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. Whose body was unable to be pulled out of the Super Six One because the nose of the helicopter had crumpled and then buried itself in the soil, causing the body to be wedge in the wreckage?

3. Where was one of Sergeant Jeff Struecker's men shot as the men made their way through the streets in "The Assault"?

4. What obstacle did the Humvee convoy face in obtaining directions, causing the convoy to turn down the wrong roads in "Black Hawk Down"?

5. Who led Chalk Two to the ordered site in "Overrun"?

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