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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Fourteen: Antigo and Chapter Fifteen: Coming Home.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the name of the 5th Marine Division?
(a) Anvil.
(b) Spearhead.
(c) Hammer.
(d) Hammerhead.

2. What portion of the American soldiers fighting on Iwo Jima ultimately died or were wounded?
(a) 1/2.
(b) 1/3.
(c) 80%.
(d) 2/3.

3. Who did John Bradley marry when he returned to the U.S according to "Chapter Fourteen: Antigo"?
(a) Ruth Emmerson.
(b) Sophie Markenson.
(c) Roberta Von Gruber.
(d) Elizabeth Van Gorp.

4. What did the Japanese consider Iwo Jima to be?
(a) Too far to defend.
(b) Lost.
(c) Impregnable.
(d) Homeland.

5. When did Ira Hayes get his paratrooper wings?
(a) 1942.
(b) 1943.
(c) 1944.
(d) 1942.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was John's nickname?

2. Why was Rene ordered to keep quiet that it was Harlon Block and not Hansen that was in the photo?

3. What part of John Bradley was on the picture run in the newspaper?

4. Whose fame was immediate after the picture of the flag ran in the newspaper?

5. Where did Harlon Block live before WWII?

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