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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Saddam Hussein’s statue.
(b) The Berlin Wall.
(c) The statue of Jalibah.
(d) The Wall of China.

2. What is the name of the song that Jonesy writes about the sandstorm in Chapter 4?
(a) “I Hate Your Mother Worse Than I Hate This Sand Blues.”
(b) “It’s a Long Way to Yesterday and a Longer Way til Tomorrow.”
(c) “Yesterday’s Blues and Tomorrow’s Rainbows.”
(d) “I Wanna Sing You a Song Baby That Ain’t the Blues.”

3. What is the name of the chaplain that comes over and tells Perry’s unit how proud the folks back home are of them after the soccer game in Chapter 12?
(a) Chaplain Harris.
(b) Chaplain Sabbat.
(c) Chaplain Nichols.
(d) Chaplain Darcy.

4. The location that Captain Coles tells the narrator they’re going to after changing directions in Chapter 5 is how far northeast from where they are now?
(a) 100 miles.
(b) 25 miles.
(c) 10 miles.
(d) 50 miles.

5. What is being used as a makeshift hospital for the wounded Iraqi civilians when the narrator’s squad arrives as backup for the medics in Chapter 5?
(a) A mosque.
(b) A café.
(c) A school.
(d) An ambassador’s house.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old does Jean Darcy say her great-grandmother is in Chapter 3?

2. What woman soldier from the 507th is said to have been possibly raped during her capture in Chapter 8?

3. The lines of the song that the narrator thinks of as his squad drives into Iraq are “Check out the real situation / Nation war against nation / When did it all begin? / When will it end?” These lyrics are from a song by whom?

4. Jonesy says he was in jail once in his life because he’d been charged with what crime in Chapter 11?

5. Jonesy says in Chapter 8 that if he could, he would take all of what back to Georgia and teach them the blues?

(see the answer key)

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