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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In his letter to Uncle Richie in Chapter 11, Private Perry says that his mother has been asking if she can send him anything. What does Perry request that his uncle have her send if money isn’t too tight?
(a) Chocolate candy.
(b) A magazine subscription.
(c) A pocket watch.
(d) Toy dolls.

3. Who shows Private Perry a photograph of his little girls who are described as “two redheaded girls, about three or four” in Chapter 6?
(a) Lieutenant Nelson.
(b) Halima Telfah.
(c) Corporal Rios.
(d) Corporal Pendleton.

4. Where does Corporal Eddie Evans say he is from originally in Chapter 1?
(a) Tampa, Florida.
(b) Stormville, New York.
(c) Stone Mountain, Georgia.
(d) Harlem, New York.

5. The narrator says in Chapter 8, “The 3rd and 4th Marines had secured an area in downtown Baghdad they were calling” what?
(a) “The Black Zone.”
(b) “The Blue Zone.”
(c) “The White Zone.”
(d) “The Bubble.”

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The letter that is presented in the novel’s Prologue is dated when?

3. When Corporal Rios receives a large package in the beginning of Chapter 9, the return address is from where?

4. What are the names of Corporal Pendleton’s daughters?

5. What is the first of the things that Jonesy says he likes about Iraq in Chapter 8?

(see the answer key)

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