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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator put into Dyer's hand in the end of "FRAGO"?
(a) A gun.
(b) A knife.
(c) A spoon.
(d) A fork.

2. 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) Gene Goodwin.
(d) Sergeant Kurtz.

3. Who dies as a result of injuries from the attack on the MRAP in "After Action Report"?
(a) Corporal Moore.
(b) Lance Corporal Suba.
(c) Lance Corporal MacClelland.
(d) Corporal Garza.

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

5. What does the acronym PPE in "OIF" represent?
(a) Personal Protective Equipment.
(b) Personal Priority Engagement.
(c) Protocol for Protective Engineers.
(d) Platoon of Priority Engineers.

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

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

8. How is the narrator's hometown described in "Bodies"?
(a) Big.
(b) On the outskirts of a large city.
(c) Artsy and academic.
(d) Small.

9. How far is Tikrit from Baghdad?
(a) 125 miles.
(b) 29 miles.
(c) 87 miles.
(d) 52 miles.

10. What does the military acronym SSTP represent?
(a) Special State Thread Protocol.
(b) Standard Surgical Trauma Position.
(c) Surgical Shock Trauma Platoon.
(d) Special Surgical Trauma Protocol.

11. What operative name does the narrator describe for the activity of shooting dogs in "Redeployment"?
(a) Operation Stimpy.
(b) Operation GoGo.
(c) Operation Scooby.
(d) Operation Old Yeller.

12. Where are the families of Marines killed in action sent to see their loved ones buried, according to the narrator in "OIF"?
(a) Signa.
(b) Lejeune.
(c) Anderson.
(d) Dover.

13. Who initially told the narrator the story about the body bag in "Bodies"?
(a) Corporal Moore.
(b) Corporal Weissert.
(c) Corporal Craig.
(d) Corporal G.

14. What is wrong with the current water pipelines that have been constructed in “Money as a Weapons System”?
(a) They are made of plastic.
(b) They have the wrong water pressure.
(c) They have melted from bombing.
(d) They are made of lead.

15. Who married a forty-year-old with two kids two weeks before deployment, according to the narrator in "After Action Report"?
(a) Lance Corporal Suba.
(b) Sergeant Price.
(c) Lance Corporal Jobrani.
(d) Sergeant Kurtz.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long after graduating boot camp is the narrator deployed to Iraq for the first time in "Bodies"?

2. What do the Marines drop into the basement to disorient the enemy in "FRAGO"?

3. How old is the woman at the bar that Corporal G tries to set up with the narrator in "Bodies"?

4. Whose desk is Nathan instructed to take at his new office in Tikrit in “Money as a Weapons System”?

5. What is the narrator's wife's name in "Redeployment"?

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