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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. Who shoots the young Iraqi boy in "After Action Report"?
(a) Lance Corporal MacClelland.
(b) Timhead.
(c) Jackson.
(d) Corporal Moore.

2. How old is Timhead's younger brother that's in juvie for setting fires?
(a) 12.
(b) 16.
(c) 15.
(d) 13.

3. What does the acronym FRAGO represent?
(a) First Regiment at Guard Order.
(b) Fragmentary Order.
(c) First Redirection of Orders.
(d) First Redeployment and Guard Orders.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who leads the 1st Fire Team in "FRAGO"?

2. Who examines the damage to the MRAP in the beginning of "After Action Report"?

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

4. How old is the woman at the bar that Corporal G tries to set up with the narrator in "Bodies"?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What internal conflict plagues Timhead in “After Action Report”?

4. How does the narrator describe his trip to a local mall in “Redeployment”?

5. What killing has taken place in “After Action Report”? Why does the narrator take credit for the killing?

6. How do the Marines enter the targeted house in “FRAGO”? What do they discover upon entering?

7. Who is the narrator of “Bodies”? How does this narrator describe his feelings about the war in the story?

8. Who is the narrator of “After Action Report”? What is taking place when this story begins?

9. What happens to Rachel in the end of “Bodies”?

10. What do the Marines do after entering the basement in “FRAGO”?

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