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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In his letter to Uncle Richie in Chapter 11, Private Perry writes that what keep changing and can even change in the middle of the day?
(a) The politics of the region.
(b) American sentiment regarding the war.
(c) The weather in Iraq.
(d) The Rules of Engagement.

2. When the CA unit is informed that they are not to leave the Green Zone in small numbers, Captain Coles goes to find out what happened at Corporal Kennedy’s request in Chapter 13. He returns with news that a marine unit found a bunch of civilians dead where?
(a) In a political hall.
(b) In a cemetery.
(c) In a mosque.
(d) In a garage.

3. To whom is the letter addressed in the Prologue of the novel?
(a) Dad.
(b) Uncle Richie.
(c) Mom.
(d) Aunt Sarah.

4. When Perry’s team arrives at the bombed school in Chapter 6, the troops that are patrolling the area are from where, according to Captain Coles?
(a) England.
(b) France.
(c) Peru.
(d) Italy.

5. Jonesy says in Chapter 13, “The only dying that means anything is” what?
(a) “Your own.”
(b) “The dying that you see.”
(c) “The dying of those you love.”
(d) “The dying you’re a part of.”

Short Answer Questions

1. When learning about the civilian executions in Chapter 13, Private Perry thinks back to a basketball game he’d played against what high school?

2. What is the name of the chaplain that comes over and tells Perry’s unit how proud the folks back home are of them after the soccer game in Chapter 12?

3. Where does the narrator say Captain Coles had gone on his honeymoon in Chapter 6?

4. Who initially refuses to give Jonesy any painkillers for his toothache in Chapter 13?

5. 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?

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