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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 does the acronym EOD represent?
(a) Endangered Operational Deployment.
(b) Explosive Ordnance Disposal.
(c) Explosive Operative Device.
(d) External Operating Device.

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

3. Who shoots the young Iraqi boy in "After Action Report"?
(a) Jackson.
(b) Corporal Moore.
(c) Lance Corporal MacClelland.
(d) Timhead.

4. What military slang term is used in "OIF" to describe non-infantry, non-combat soldiers or staff?
(a) ANP.
(b) POG.
(c) MTG.
(d) PNO.

5. What does the family of the fourteen-year-old girl that was raped want to do with her in “Money as a Weapons System”?
(a) Send her to America.
(b) Arrange a marriage for her.
(c) Send her to school.
(d) Sell her to a brothel.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator consider drinking to deal with his circumstances in "FRAGO"?

2. What disease do the members of First Platoon contract in Iraq?

3. What is the name of the narrator in "Redeployment"?

4. What branch of the military did Rachel want the narrator to join instead of the Marines?

5. Where does the narrator describe being sent after deployment and before returning home in "Redeployment"?

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