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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The first casualties that the narrator learns of in Chapter 4 are described as having been “hit around someplace called” what?
(a) Al Jazeera.
(b) An Nasiriyah.
(c) Kazimayn.
(d) An Najaf.

2. How old is Captain Coles’s daughter that has been hospitalized in Chapter 12?
(a) 9.
(b) 5.
(c) 3.
(d) 2.

3. In the soccer game that Jonesy sets up in Chapter 12, who agrees to get Third Squad to play if he can be the goalie?
(a) Colonel King.
(b) Corporal Rios.
(c) Lieutenant Nelson.
(d) Corporal Pendleton.

4. What fighting vehicle is described in Chapter 4 as “a big tank-looking affair with a mounted cannon”?
(a) A Canyoneer.
(b) A Water Buffalo.
(c) A Humvee.
(d) A Bradley.

5. Jonesy says in Chapter 8 that if he could, he would take all of what back to Georgia and teach them the blues?
(a) The Iraqi men.
(b) The Kurds.
(c) The Iraqi children.
(d) The Iraqi children.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the song that Jonesy writes about the sandstorm in Chapter 4?

2. What does Jerry Egri say he did back home in Chapter 12?

3. What word from Chapter 4 refers to a temporary camp without tents or cover, used by soldiers?

4. Who is described as “one of the intelligence guys” that has lost the use of his camera due to the sandstorm in Chapter 4?

5. When Private Perry is preparing to go to a mosque with some chaplains and Corporal Kennedy in Chapter 8, he asks several people from his unit what they’d like him to bring back. Corporal Danforth says that he wants what?

(see the answer key)

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