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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. What does the acronym NAM represent in "OIF"?
(a) Navy Achievement Medal.
(b) Naval Artillery Machine.
(c) Naval Academy Marine.
(d) The Vietnam War.

2. Who gets out of the vehicle with the narrator when it is hit by an IED in "OIF"?
(a) Corporal Sweet.
(b) Lance Corporal MacClelland.
(c) Sergeant Green.
(d) Sergeant Kurtz.

3. What does "Istalquall" mean in English?
(a) The enemy.
(b) Warfare.
(c) Love.
(d) Freedom.

4. What video game does the narrator describe playing in "After Action Report"?
(a) Pokemon.
(b) Knock Out.
(c) Grand Theft Auto.
(d) New Vice City.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who dies as a result of injuries from the attack on the MRAP in "After Action Report"?

2. Who is the woman that interviews Iraqi women for the health clinic in “Money as a Weapons System”?

3. Who is the narrator of "After Action Report"?

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

5. Who sends Nathan an email suggesting he start a baseball league with the local Iraqi boys in “Money as a Weapons System”?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. How are IEDs defined in “OIF”? How are daisy chains described?

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

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

9. What is symbolized by the death of the Iraqi boy in “After Action Report”?

10. What symbolism is depicted in the story titled “FRAGO”? What does the narrator’s experience represent?

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