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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice 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?
(a) Colonel King.
(b) Corporal Rios.
(c) Captain Miller.
(d) Lieutenant Nelson.

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

3. Where does the prisoner that the narrator’s squad takes say he learned to speak English in Chapter 5?
(a) New York.
(b) London.
(c) Chicago.
(d) Paris.

4. What does “MRE” stand for in the narrative?
(a) “Meal, Read-to-Eat.”
(b) “Metal Restrictor Envoy.”
(c) “Missing Relay Edict.”
(d) “Missing Recon Eviction.”

5. Where does Jonesy say that Oprah Winfrey got her name in Chapter 9?
(a) From a women’s magazine.
(b) From a blues song.
(c) From African folklore.
(d) From the Bible.

Short Answer Questions

1. Private Perry’s mother says in her letter in Chapter 7 that Perry’s father still thinks he is how old?

2. What does Ahmed call the redbrick mound that “seemed almost to shimmer in the bright sunlight” and where the Mesopotamians supposedly built shrines, in Chapter 9?

3. What name is given to the stuffed monkey that Corporal Rios received in the mail in Chapter 9?

4. Private Perry’s mother says in her letter in Chapter 7 that something is finally being done with the buildings on what street?

5. In the letter that Private Perry receives from his mother in Chapter 7, she relates that what individual at church didn’t believe Perry was in the army because he was too young?

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