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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Perry’s unit gets word in Chapter 13 that no one is to leave the Green Zone in groups of less than how many each?
(a) 10.
(b) 7.
(c) 2.
(d) 6.

2. When learning about the civilian executions in Chapter 13, Private Perry thinks back to a basketball game he’d played against what high school?
(a) Jackson High School.
(b) Lane High School.
(c) Rutgers High School.
(d) Wilson High School.

3. What battalion is described as “the main CA support group attached to the 3rd Infantry” in Chapter 9?
(a) The 422nd Civil Affairs Battalion.
(b) The 203rd Civil Affairs Battalion.
(c) The 104th Civil Affairs Battalion.
(d) The 322nd Civil Affairs Battalion.

4. 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) Captain Miller.
(c) Corporal Rios.
(d) Lieutenant Nelson.

5. What term is used in Chapter 9 to describe “a 400-gallon water carrier that could be hitched onto the back of a truck”?
(a) A “Cyclops.”
(b) A Bradley.
(c) A Humvee.
(d) A “water buffalo.”

Short Answer Questions

1. For how many days does the sandstorm last in Chapter 4?

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. What does “WMD” refer to in the novel?

4. What woman soldier from the 507th is said to have been possibly raped during her capture in Chapter 8?

5. Sergeant Harris is described in Chapter 2 as “a black soldier who had switched to Civil Affairs from” where?

(see the answer key)

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