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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Major Spring Sessions tells the unit in Chapter 1 that their entire detachment is made up of about how many people?
(a) 30.
(b) 75.
(c) 81.
(d) 42.

3. Who is the baseball player on the Yankees t-shirt that one of the Iraqi children is wearing in Chapter 5?
(a) Jack Slater.
(b) Johnny Saint.
(c) Bobby Fisher.
(d) Derek Jeter.

4. The first Gulf War (“Operation Desert Storm”) was waged by a U.N. coalition force of 34 nations against Iraq in response to what?
(a) Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait.
(b) The 9/11 attacks.
(c) Iraq’s invasion of Iran.
(d) Iraq’s invasion of Libya.

5. Jonesy tells the narrator in Chapter 3, “Most of my training was about” doing what “when you heard gunfire”?
(a) “Jumping up.”
(b) “Calling the cops.”
(c) “Shooting back.”
(d) “Diving down.”

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the First Squad painting at the Iraqi military school in the beginning of Chapter 6?

2. The narrator says in Chapter 8, “The 3rd and 4th Marines had secured an area in downtown Baghdad they were calling” what?

3. Along what river do the narrator and his squad travel as they head northeast in Chapter 5?

4. Private Robin Perry says that he is from where originally in Chapter 1?

5. What is the name that the narrator says “we called the Special Ops guys who went on secret missions in enemy territory,” in Chapter 2?

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