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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the song that Jonesy writes about the sandstorm in Chapter 4?
(a) “Yesterday’s Blues and Tomorrow’s Rainbows.”
(b) “It’s a Long Way to Yesterday and a Longer Way til Tomorrow.”
(c) “I Hate Your Mother Worse Than I Hate This Sand Blues.”
(d) “I Wanna Sing You a Song Baby That Ain’t the Blues.”

2. Who shoots and kills the injured man that begins shooting at the narrator’s squad with a pistol in Chapter 5?
(a) Sergeant Harris.
(b) Captain Miller.
(c) Captain Coles.
(d) Specialist Darcy.

3. Private Robin Perry says that he is from where originally in Chapter 1?
(a) Dix Hills, New York.
(b) Tampa, Florida.
(c) Harlem, New York.
(d) Stone Mountain, Georgia.

4. What do “MPs” refer to in the narrative?
(a) Machine Pumps.
(b) Military Police.
(c) Marked Persons.
(d) Masked Persons.

5. Sergeant Harris is described in Chapter 2 as “a black soldier who had switched to Civil Affairs from” where?
(a) “The Navy Seals.”
(b) “The Marines.”
(c) “Quartermaster.”
(d) “Halfmaster.”

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The first Gulf War (“Operation Desert Storm”) was waged by a U.N. coalition force of 34 nations against Iraq in response to what?

3. What does “KIA” represent in the narrative?

4. The narrator describes watching a film about Saddam Hussein in Chapter 2. What people in the film are described as having been gassed?

5. The lines of the song that the narrator thinks of as his squad drives into Iraq are “Check out the real situation / Nation war against nation / When did it all begin? / When will it end?” These lyrics are from a song by whom?

(see the answer key)

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