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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 has just been pronounced dead in the beginning of "Prayer in the Furnace"?
(a) Major Zima.
(b) Lance Corporal Jobrani.
(c) Corporal Garza.
(d) Denton Fujita.

2. What disease do the members of First Platoon contract in Iraq?
(a) Gonorrhea.
(b) AIDS.
(c) Syphillis.
(d) Herpes.

3. What is Voorstadt eating in the beginning of "Ten Kliks South"?
(a) Oatmeal.
(b) Spaghetti and hot sauce.
(c) Potato soup.
(d) Ravioli and Pop-Tarts.

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

5. How would you describe the narrative style of the stories in Redeployment?
(a) They are all related from a third-person omniscient narrator.
(b) They are all related in first-person from different perspectives.
(c) Half are related in first-person and half are related in third-person.
(d) They are all related by the same first-person narrator.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word from "In Vietnam They Had Whores" refers to the seasonal wind of the Indian Ocean and southern Asia?

2. What role did Waguih play in PsyOps?

3. Where is Amherst College located?

4. What does the narrator's friend say he'll buy him in "In Vietnam They Had Whores"?

5. Where does the narrator attend a memorial service for his team leader in "In Vietnam They Had Whores"?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the theme of guilt apply to Wilson in “War Stories”?

2. What does the character of Zara represent in “Psychological Operations”?

3. What does Waguih relate to Zara regarding propaganda in “Psychological Operations”?

4. What does the narrator think about when he passes the medic tent in “Ten Kliks South”?

5. What does Boylan relate of his career in “Unless it’s a Sucking Chest Wound”? What does the narrator ask Boylan at the end of the story?

6. How are the characters of Sarah and Jessie described in “War Stories”?

7. How does Waguih describe the incident where he was responsible for another man’s death in “Psychological Operations”?

8. What conversation takes place between Wilson and Jessie in the end of “War Stories”?

9. What symbolism is related in the story “In Vietnam They Had Whores”?

10. What symbolism and themes are related through the story “Ten Kliks South”?

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