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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Rodriguez covered in during the beginning of "Prayer in the Furnace"?
(a) Machine oil.
(b) Coal.
(c) Flour.
(d) Blood.

2. How many men in Rodriguez's battalion have been killed by the end of deployment in "Prayer in the Furnace"?
(a) 22.
(b) 16.
(c) 12.
(d) 19.

3. What award did the deceased friend of Boylan receive posthumously in “Unless it’s a Sucking Chest Wound”?
(a) The Medal of Honor.
(b) The Navy Cross.
(c) The Purple Heart.
(d) The Bronze Star.

4. What kind of music does Waguih describe the American troops playing on loudspeakers in Iraq?
(a) Rap music.
(b) Broadway music.
(c) Country music.
(d) Opera music.

5. What question does the narrator ask Boylan at the end of “Unless it’s a Sucking Chest Wound”?
(a) Whether America won the Iraq War.
(b) Whether he intends to go back for redeployment.
(c) Whether he is married.
(d) Whether he is happy.

6. Who does the narrator fear is calling him in the beginning of “Unless it’s a Sucking Chest Wound”?
(a) Sergeant Green.
(b) Denton Fujita.
(c) James Vockler.
(d) Corporal Weissert.

7. What word from "Psychological Operations" means a temporary stay?
(a) Deposit.
(b) Parlay.
(c) Sojourn.
(d) Variance.

8. Who says he doesn't feel like he killed anybody in "Ten Kliks South"?
(a) Eicholtz.
(b) Haupert.
(c) Jewett.
(d) Zima.

9. Where is the priest serving in the end of "Prayer in the Furnace"?
(a) Camp Zima.
(b) Camp Dover.
(c) Camp Scott.
(d) Camp Lejeune.

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

11. What word from "War Stories" refers to fragmentation thrown out by an exploding bomb or shell?
(a) Collateral.
(b) Shardel.
(c) PRAC.
(d) Shrapnel.

12. Who tells the priest that a Marine in the battalion has been diagnosed with Combat Stress but is performing his duties efficiently in "Prayer in the Furnace"?
(a) Sergeant Kurtz.
(b) Major Zima.
(c) Sergeant Haupert.
(d) Lance Corporal Jobrani.

13. What word from "Psychological Operations" refers to a policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force?
(a) Communism.
(b) Displacement.
(c) Capitalism.
(d) Imperialism.

14. Where is the first female that the narrator sees during his deployment in "In Vietnam They Had Whores"?
(a) Dover.
(b) Baghdad.
(c) LeJeune.
(d) Al Asad.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what religion was Waguih raised?

2. How does the narrator say it's "supposed to feel" to have killed someone in "Ten Kliks South"?

3. How many people is "platoon sized" estimated to be in "Ten Kliks South"?

4. Where has Kevin Boylan just returned from in the beginning of “Unless it’s a Sucking Chest Wound”?

5. Who is the terrorist leader described in "Psychological Operations"?

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