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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 happens to the Marine whose legs are blown off in the explosion in "OIF"?
(a) He dies in surgery.
(b) He recovers and is awarded a Purple Heart.
(c) He goes on to become Corporal.
(d) He is dishonorably discharged.

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

3. What is Rodriguez covered in during the beginning of "Prayer in the Furnace"?
(a) Flour.
(b) Machine oil.
(c) Coal.
(d) Blood.

4. How are the women described at the strip club the narrator goes to in "In Vietnam They Had Whores"?
(a) Very attractive.
(b) Unattractive.
(c) Very young.
(d) Iraqi.

5. What can the priest see in Rodriguez's face in the beginning of "Prayer in the Furnace"?
(a) Rage.
(b) Resentment.
(c) Hunger.
(d) Grief.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does "Istalquall" mean in English?

2. What term do the Marines use to refer to the enemy in Redeployment?

3. What is the nickname of the narrator's friend and fellow Marine in "In Vietnam They Had Whores"?

4. What does Chris suggests Nathan teach Iraqi widows in “Money as a Weapons System”?

5. What does the narrator describe having happened to "the retarded guy in the cage" in "Redeployment"?

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