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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Corporal Kennedy describe growing up in Chapter 10?
(a) A wealthy estate.
(b) A nunnery.
(c) A mental hospital.
(d) A foster home.

2. What are the names of Corporal Pendleton’s daughters?
(a) Elizabeth and Marie.
(b) Sarah and Sally.
(c) Michelle and Mary.
(d) Kayla and Karen.

3. Private Perry recalls having been stopped on what New York street and searched by plainclothes police in Chapter 10?
(a) 136th Street.
(b) 111th Street.
(c) Broadway.
(d) 12th Street.

4. Who discovers the detonators at the home that is searched with the Special Ops unit in Chapter 10?
(a) Captain Coles.
(b) Corporal Kennedy.
(c) Lieutenant Nelson.
(d) Specialist Darcy.

5. The first casualties that the narrator learns of in Chapter 4 are described as having been “hit around someplace called” what?
(a) Kazimayn.
(b) Al Jazeera.
(c) An Najaf.
(d) An Nasiriyah.

Short Answer Questions

1. The character who introduces herself as Major Spring Sessions says in the opening of Chapter 1, “Gentlemen, ladies, welcome to” what location?

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

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

5. What does Corporal Kennedy say the line of green objects on the ground are that can be seen as the squad drives across the Iraqi border in Chapter 4?

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