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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Forty, By a Stretch of the Imagination.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What form of public execution does the Squad attend in Chapter 29?
(a) A beheading.
(b) A firing squad.
(c) A stoning.
(d) A hanging.

2. How does Stink Harris lose his hold on Cacciato in the brush?
(a) Stink cannot get his arms all the way around Cacciato.
(b) Cacciato punches him in the groin.
(c) Cacciato bites him.
(d) Cacciato is sweaty and slick.

3. Why are Third Squad arrested in Chapter 29?
(a) Doc Peret discusses the Shah publicly.
(b) Oscar Johnson gets in a bar fight.
(c) Stink Harris insults a mullah.
(d) Eddie Lazzutti asks a cop directions.

4. Which European river do the men cross at the end of Chapter 40?
(a) The Rhine.
(b) The Danube.
(c) The Seine.
(d) The Rhine.

5. To what movie player of villains does Stink Harris compare the executed man?
(a) Richard Widmark.
(b) Peter Lorre.
(c) Boris Karloff.
(d) Sidney Greenstreet.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which member of Third Squad always daydreams abut what he'd do with a million dollars?

2. Cacciato tells Paul Berlin that the way to Paris is simple after one passes what city?

3. What does Paul Berlin plan to stop doing after the war is over?

4. At the end of Chapter 40, Paul Berlin reasons that the root goal or the Vietnam War is to spread what?

5. Why does Doc declare the Nazis and Japanese lost World War II?

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