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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

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

3. When does Nathan arrive in Tikrit in “Money as a Weapons System”?
(a) 2008.
(b) 2006.
(c) 2003.
(d) 2009.

4. What does the narrator do when he opens his mail to find pictures of his naked girlfriend in "Bodies"?
(a) He lights the pictures on fire.
(b) He gives the pictures to the corporal.
(c) He throws the pictures out the window.
(d) He stuffs the pictures in his mouth.

5. Who has said in “Money as a Weapons System” that "sports diplomacy" could lead to democracy in Iraq?
(a) Eicholtz.
(b) Sergeant Green.
(c) Major Zima.
(d) Chris Roper.

6. How long after graduating boot camp is the narrator deployed to Iraq for the first time in "Bodies"?
(a) 6 months later.
(b) 10 months later.
(c) 2 months later.
(d) 1 year later.

7. 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) Arrange a marriage for her.
(b) Send her to school.
(c) Sell her to a brothel.
(d) Send her to America.

8. Where does the narrator's plane stop to refuel as it takes him home in "Redeployment"?
(a) Scotland.
(b) Spain.
(c) France.
(d) Ireland.

9. Who is the DI the narrator describes having beaten an Iraqi to death with a radio in "After Action Report"?
(a) Corporal Weissert.
(b) Lance Corporal Jobrani.
(c) Staff Sergeant Black.
(d) Lance Corporal MacClelland.

10. For what organization do the Marines presume the torture has been recorded in "FRAGO"?
(a) Al-Qaeda.
(b) Takfir wal-Hijra.
(c) Al Ghurabaa.
(d) Abu Sayyaf.

11. Who gets out of the vehicle with the narrator when it is hit by an IED in "OIF"?
(a) Lance Corporal MacClelland.
(b) Corporal Sweet.
(c) Sergeant Green.
(d) Sergeant Kurtz.

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

13. What is the narrator's enlistment code in "OIF"?
(a) 2500.
(b) 4200.
(c) 5100.
(d) 3400.

14. What type of project is described as "big" by Bob in “Money as a Weapons System”?
(a) Starting a baseball league.
(b) Erecting a water treatment plant.
(c) Starting a Women's Business Bureau.
(d) Filtering water.

15. What is the narrator's wife's name in "Redeployment"?
(a) Marie.
(b) Sarah.
(c) Anna.
(d) Cheryl.

Short Answer Questions

1. What video game does the narrator describe playing in "After Action Report"?

2. What does the acronym NAM represent in "OIF"?

3. What does the narrator urge Dyer to get at the cafeteria in "FRAGO"?

4. What does Doc use to treat Sweet's wound in "FRAGO"?

5. What happens to the Marine whose legs are blown off in the explosion in "OIF"?

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