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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The 3rd Infantry Division is generally following what group that enters Iraq first in Chapter 4?
(a) The Special Ops.
(b) The Political Brigade.
(c) The Air Force.
(d) The Marines.

2. While playing poker with the unit in Chapter 12, Corporal Kennedy bluffs and claims she has two pair. What pair does she claim to have?
(a) Jacks over eights.
(b) Tens over sixes.
(c) Kings over sevens.
(d) Queens over tens.

3. The narrator says in Chapter 8, “The 3rd and 4th Marines had secured an area in downtown Baghdad they were calling” what?
(a) “The Blue Zone.”
(b) “The Bubble.”
(c) “The White Zone.”
(d) “The Black Zone.”

4. To which of the two main branches of Islam did Saddam Hussein belong, according to the narrator in Chapter 8?
(a) Sunni.
(b) Kurd.
(c) Shiite.
(d) Mawlaw'īyya.

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 children.
(b) The Kurds.
(c) The Iraqi men.
(d) The Iraqi children.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the CA unit watches cartoons and decides to map out a plan for Wile E. Coyote to finally trap the Road Runner in Chapter 12, they develop a set of specs to send to what corporation?

2. The first casualties that the narrator learns of in Chapter 4 are described as having been “hit around someplace called” what?

3. What is the Arabic news station called that has shown some of the prisoners that have been taken in Chapter 4?

4. What word from Chapter 12 refers to a loose hooded cloak, typically woolen, traditionally worn by Arabs?

5. Where does Jonesy say they’re going out again in Chapter 12, which the narrator describes as running “through some of the worst territory for ambushes in Iraq”?

(see the answer key)

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