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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many soldiers were discovered wounded at the armored car wreckage?
(a) 6.
(b) 3.
(c) 1.
(d) 2.

2. Why does Tom say he stopped reading history?
(a) Because it's different when you are one of the statistics.
(b) There are no libraries on the battlefield.
(c) Because he has no time, with the war and all.
(d) He tired of it.

3. What is the image of war that the press has presented?
(a) Cool.
(b) Popular and necessary.
(c) Idyllic and heroic.
(d) Exhaustion, exhilaration, bordom, and discomfort.

4. What was the subject of Claudia's nightmare in Chapter 13?
(a) Seeing Tom die in the desert.
(b) Having malaria.
(c) A gruesome flight of Cortez's Spaniards from the Aztec capital of Tlacopan.
(d) Having a baby and not knowing its gender.

5. What was Jasper's nationality?
(a) English and Spanish.
(b) German and Russian.
(c) German and Italian.
(d) English and Russian.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who cannot speak at the beginning of Chapter 4?

2. How old was Tom when he died?

3. Why did the person discussed in Chapter 2 stab at Claudia's crotch?

4. How did the World War II soldiers that Claudia worked around disguise their horror?

5. What was a "Matilda?"

(see the answer key)

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