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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 term used in Chapter 8 to refer to the person who leads prayers in a mosque?
(a) Shah.
(b) Imam.
(c) Sultan.
(d) Jurist.

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

3. Where is Corporal Phil Pendleton said to be from in Chapter 1?
(a) Stone Mountain, Georgia.
(b) Harlem, New York.
(c) Leetown, West Virginia.
(d) Dix Hills, New York.

4. 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) Saddam Hussein’s statue.
(c) The Berlin Wall.
(d) The Wall of China.

5. After reading the letter from his mother in Chapter 7, Private Perry thinks about how she said he was always what type of individual?
(a) Driven.
(b) Sickly.
(c) Ambitious.
(d) Brave.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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”?

2. When Private Perry is preparing to go to a mosque with some chaplains and Corporal Kennedy in Chapter 8, he asks several people from his unit what they’d like him to bring back. Corporal Danforth says that he wants what?

3. How many women are taken from the home where the detonators are found in Chapter 10?

4. What is the nickname that Corporal Kennedy calls Private Perry in the novel?

5. To whom is the letter addressed in the Prologue of the novel?

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