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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through “Prayer in the Furnace”.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word from "Prayer in the Furnace" refers to biographies of saints or venerated persons?
(a) Paramentary.
(b) Elegaic.
(c) Enlistmentary.
(d) Hagiographic.

2. What weaponry do the teams use to tear down the back door of the target in "FRAGO"?
(a) A M870.
(b) A Winchester Model 12.
(c) A Remington Model 10.
(d) An AK-47.

3. Whom does the narrator describe covered in blood in "Redeployment"?
(a) O'Leary.
(b) Weissert.
(c) Craig.
(d) Eicholtz.

4. Who has just been pronounced dead in the beginning of "Prayer in the Furnace"?
(a) Corporal Garza.
(b) Lance Corporal Jobrani.
(c) Major Zima.
(d) Denton Fujita.

5. By the end of deployment, how many men in Rodriguez's battalion have been injured in "Prayer in the Furnace"?
(a) About 50.
(b) Over 100.
(c) Under 20.
(d) About 30.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the priest's former career in "Prayer in the Furnace"?

2. When was Timhead's older brother killed in combat?

3. What does the military acronym SSTP represent?

4. According to the storyteller in "In Vietnam They Had Whores," what would happen in Vietnam if a prostitute from a white brothel was caught servicing a black man?

5. Where does the narrator attend a memorial service for his team leader in "In Vietnam They Had Whores"?

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