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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. On what deployment of the narrator's does Rachel get married in "Bodies"?
(a) On his third deployment.
(b) On his fourth deployment.
(c) On his fifth deployment.
(d) On his second deployment.

3. The narrator says in "Bodies" that except for him and the corporal, everyone in Mortuary Affairs talked about what?
(a) Love.
(b) Morality.
(c) Women.
(d) Ghosts.

4. What is the name of the narrator's dog in "Redeployment"?
(a) Ruddy.
(b) Andy.
(c) Jackson.
(d) Vicar.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the narrator suggest his girlfriend do when he returns home in "OIF"?

3. Who drops off several baseball uniforms for the local Iraqi boys in “Money as a Weapons System”?

4. Where is the memorial held for the Marine that was killed by the MRAP attack in "After Action Report"?

5. What weaponry do the teams use to tear down the back door of the target in "FRAGO"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What literary element dominates “Money as a Weapons System”?

2. Who is Rachel, and what role does she play in the story “Bodies”?

3. Describe the narrative style of “FRAGO.” What is taking place when the story begins?

4. What do the military medals in “OIF” represent symbolically?

5. How does the theme of guilt apply to the narrator in “Money as a Weapons System”?

6. What decision does the narrator make at the end of “OIF”? Why?

7. How is the narrator’s civilian life described when he returns home in “Redeployment”?

8. Whose memorial is described in “After Action Report”? How is the memorial described?

9. What is discovered in the basement in “FRAGO”? How do the Marines enter the basement?

10. What does the narrator do in the end of “Redeployment”? Why?

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