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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does “WMD” refer to in the novel?
(a) “Weapons of Mass Destruction.”
(b) “War of Material Detonation.”
(c) “Weapons of Marine Detachment.”
(d) “War of Mind Destruction.”

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

3. What is the First Squad painting at the Iraqi military school in the beginning of Chapter 6?
(a) A Humvee.
(b) A church.
(c) Port-O-Potties.
(d) A school.

4. Private Perry’s mother says in her letter in Chapter 7 that she saw on television that a white Baptist church where was preparing food and stuff to send to the troops?
(a) Alabama.
(b) Texas.
(c) Kentucky.
(d) Georgia.

5. 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) Corporal Rios.
(b) Colonel King.
(c) Lieutenant Nelson.
(d) Captain Miller.

Short Answer Questions

1. Jonesy tells the narrator in Chapter 3, “Most of my training was about” doing what “when you heard gunfire”?

2. What river runs through Baghdad?

3. Who shoots and kills the injured man that begins shooting at the narrator’s squad with a pistol in Chapter 5?

4. 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?

5. Who is the driver in the Second Squad in Chapter 2?

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