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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) Small.
(b) Artsy and academic.
(c) Big.
(d) On the outskirts of a large city.

2. Who drops off several baseball uniforms for the local Iraqi boys in “Money as a Weapons System”?
(a) Corporal Craig.
(b) Corporal Sweet.
(c) Major Zima.
(d) Corporal Garza.

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

4. What does PFC refer to in "Redeployment"?
(a) Personal Fire Control.
(b) Protective Fire Control.
(c) Protective First Consulate.
(d) Private First Class.

5. Whom does the narrator describe covered in blood in "Redeployment"?
(a) Weissert.
(b) Craig.
(c) O'Leary.
(d) Eicholtz.

6. Who introduces Nathan to Cindy in “Money as a Weapons System”?
(a) Bob.
(b) James.
(c) Paul.
(d) Mark.

7. Where does the narrator describe flying out of to return home in "Redeployment"?
(a) Senegal.
(b) Iran.
(c) Kuwait.
(d) Afghanistan.

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

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

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

11. How does the narrator of "Bodies" differentiate how women and men prefer hearing Iraq stories?
(a) Men like them morbid and women like them vague.
(b) Men like them sad and women like them funny.
(c) Men like them funny and women like them sad.
(d) Men like them conflicted and women like them simple.

12. 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) Eicholtz.
(c) Gene Goodwin.
(d) Corporal Moore.

13. Who orders five beers at once during the refueling stop in "Redeployment"?
(a) Lieutenant Eicholtz.
(b) Sergeant Price.
(c) Corporal O'Leary.
(d) Corporal Weissert.

14. What is the name of the narrator in "Redeployment"?
(a) Sergeant Price.
(b) Sergeant Vicar.
(c) Lieutenant O'Leary.
(d) Sergeant Eicholtz.

15. What does the narrator suggest his girlfriend do when he returns home in "OIF"?
(a) He suggests she leave her husband.
(b) He tells her to move to Cleveland.
(c) He tells her to leave him.
(d) He asks her to marry him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the acronym OEF stand for in the narrative?

2. Who shoots the young Iraqi boy in "After Action Report"?

3. How does the narrator describe his feelings for the PFC that died in the end of "OIF"?

4. What is the narrator's hometown in "Bodies"?

5. The narrator says in "Bodies" that except for him and the corporal, everyone in Mortuary Affairs talked about what?

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