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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through “War Stories”.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who sends Nathan an email suggesting he start a baseball league with the local Iraqi boys in “Money as a Weapons System”?
(a) Eicholtz.
(b) Corporal Moore.
(c) Sergeant Kurtz.
(d) Gene Goodwin.

2. Who is described as the only Muslim in the narrator's platoon in "After Action Report"?
(a) Corporal Moore.
(b) Lance Corporal MacClelland.
(c) Lance Corporal Jobrani.
(d) Corporal Weissert.

3. What do the Marines drop into the basement to disorient the enemy in "FRAGO"?
(a) A M870.
(b) A grenade.
(c) A flashbang.
(d) An AK-47.

4. What is the narrator's hometown in "Bodies"?
(a) St. Louis.
(b) Jackson.
(c) Callaway.
(d) Malvern.

5. Where does the narrator describe flying out of to return home in "Redeployment"?
(a) Iran.
(b) Kuwait.
(c) Afghanistan.
(d) Senegal.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of device is described by the narrator in "OIF" as one that sets off multiple blasts?

2. Who is the team leader that tells the narrator that girls like war heroes in "In Vietnam They Had Whores"?

3. What does the narrator's friend say he'll buy him in "In Vietnam They Had Whores"?

4. What does the acronym NAM represent in "OIF"?

5. Who has said in “Money as a Weapons System” that "sports diplomacy" could lead to democracy in Iraq?

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