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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the Arabic news station called that has shown some of the prisoners that have been taken in Chapter 4?
(a) Kazimayn.
(b) An Nasiriyah.
(c) Abu Ghraib.
(d) Al Jazeera.

2. Where does Private Perry describe his grandmother going to “drink tea from glasses instead of cups” when she was young in Chapter 9?
(a) The Upper East Side, Manhattan.
(b) The Bronx, New York.
(c) The Lower East Side, Manhattan.
(d) The West Village, Manhattan.

3. Where is Corporal Marla Kennedy from originally?
(a) Tampa, Florida.
(b) Stone Mountain, Georgia.
(c) Dix Hills, New York.
(d) Harlem, New York.

4. What television station does the narrator’s squad pick up after stopping to camp for the night in Iraq in Chapter 4?
(a) NBC.
(b) CBS.
(c) FOX.
(d) CNN.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How old does Captain Coles say he was when he joined the army in Chapter 2?

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

3. Who from the Third Squad is described in Chapter 2 as “a really quiet guy… who had worked in a rehabilitation center in civilian life”?

4. Who receives a letter in the beginning of Chapter 7 and begins cursing over its contents?

5. What does Corporal Charlie Jones give as his hometown in Chapter 1?

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