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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old is Cindy in “Money as a Weapons System”?
(a) In her forties.
(b) In her twenties.
(c) In her fifties.
(d) In her thirties.

2. Who is described as "the sober Mormon" in "Redeployment"?
(a) Sergeant Price.
(b) Corporal Craig.
(c) Corporal Weissert.
(d) Captain O'Leary.

3. 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) Filtering water.
(d) Starting a Women's Business Bureau.

4. What do the Marines drop into the basement to disorient the enemy in "FRAGO"?
(a) A grenade.
(b) A flashbang.
(c) An AK-47.
(d) A M870.

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

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

7. Where is the narrator reunited with Cpl Sweet in the end of "FRAGO"?
(a) A church at the military airbase.
(b) A hospital at the military airbase.
(c) In New York.
(d) A college campus.

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

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

10. How old is the woman at the bar that Corporal G tries to set up with the narrator in "Bodies"?
(a) 19.
(b) 38.
(c) 29.
(d) 32.

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

12. What weapons are taken away from the Marines during their flight home in "Redeployment"?
(a) Pistols.
(b) Rifles.
(c) Pocket knives.
(d) Bayonets.

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

14. Who is the fellow Marine that points out the dogs drinking blood in "Redeployment"?
(a) Eicholtz.
(b) O'Leary.
(c) Weissert.
(d) Craig.

15. Where does the narrator describe being sent after deployment and before returning home in "Redeployment"?
(a) IN.
(b) RC.
(c) RA.
(d) TQ.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the narrator's enlistment code in "OIF"?

3. Where does Corporal G convince the narrator to go with him when they get a nintey-six in "Bodies"?

4. What military slang term is used in "OIF" to describe non-infantry, non-combat soldiers or staff?

5. Who married a forty-year-old with two kids two weeks before deployment, according to the narrator in "After Action Report"?

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