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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the term used in Chapter 8 to refer to the person who leads prayers in a mosque?
(a) Sultan.
(b) Imam.
(c) Jurist.
(d) Shah.

2. 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?
(a) A woman with three breasts.
(b) Fried chicken.
(c) A puppy dog.
(d) A woman wearing a burka.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The mosque that Private Perry visits with other CA soldiers in Chapter 8 is located in what area north of Baghdad?

3. Where does Barbara say their Humvee was when they witnessed the explosion that killed two marines in Chapter 8?

4. What television station does the narrator’s squad pick up after stopping to camp for the night in Iraq in Chapter 4?

5. The 3rd Infantry Division is generally following what group that enters Iraq first in Chapter 4?

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