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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who says in Chapter 3, “What we got to do over here is to kill all of them and let God sort them out”?
(a) Colonel King.
(b) Specialist Darcy.
(c) Corporal Pendleton.
(d) Corporal Rios.

2. The narrator says in Chapter 6 that “the guys from the 3rd ID and the 4th Marines were bopping around Baghdad and getting on television” because they had been present when what was torn down?
(a) The statue of Jalibah.
(b) The Wall of China.
(c) Saddam Hussein’s statue.
(d) The Berlin Wall.

3. Who is described in Chapter 6 as “Saddam’s fourth or fifth cousin” that “spoke a little English and was between one hundred and two hundred years old”?
(a) Jamil Sidqi al-Tikrit.
(b) Halima Telfah.
(c) Captain Coles.
(d) Ahmed Sabbat.

4. In Chapter 3, the narrator says that the troops just heard a lecture from what individual “who was in charge of all Civil Affairs in the area”?
(a) Lieutenant Nelson.
(b) Colonel King.
(c) Specialist Darcy.
(d) Muhammad Latif Al-Sadah.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where does Corporal Eddie Evans say he is from originally in Chapter 1?

3. What river runs through Baghdad?

4. What is the name of the colonel that enters with Major Sessions at the meeting in Chapter 6?

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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