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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through “Ten Kliks South”.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who fired the weapon that was used in the attack in "Ten Kliks South"?
(a) The narrator.
(b) Voorstadt.
(c) Green.
(d) Kurtz.

2. What do the narrator's friends call him in “Unless it’s a Sucking Chest Wound”?
(a) "Officer."
(b) "The Drill Sergeant."
(c) "The Marine."
(d) "Captain."

3. What smell does Jenks recall during the blast that injured him in "War Stories"?
(a) Battery acid.
(b) Sulphur.
(c) Burning flesh.
(d) Maple syrup.

4. Who is the terrorist leader described in "Psychological Operations"?
(a) Hamida al-Attas.
(b) Omar bin Laden.
(c) Laith al-Tawhid.
(d) Osama bin Laden.

5. Who in the narrator's platoon was injured enough to be sent out of Iraq after the MRAP attack?
(a) Corporal Moore.
(b) Lance Corporal Jobrani.
(c) Eicholtz.
(d) Big Man.

Short Answer Questions

1. What question does the narrator ask Boylan at the end of “Unless it’s a Sucking Chest Wound”?

2. Who is the Chief Engineer working with Nathan in “Money as a Weapons System”?

3. What word from "Ten Kliks South" refers to a type of artillery piece characterized by a relatively short barrel and the use of comparatively small propellant charges to propel projectiles at relatively high trajectories?

4. Why did Waguih join the military?

5. Approximately how many people does Sanchez estimate each man killed in "Ten Kliks South"?

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