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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ahmed call the redbrick mound that “seemed almost to shimmer in the bright sunlight” and where the Mesopotamians supposedly built shrines, in Chapter 9?
(a) An oasis.
(b) A charlatan.
(c) A prism.
(d) A ziggurat.

2. 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) Brave.
(b) Sickly.
(c) Driven.
(d) Ambitious.

3. The letter that Private Perry receives from his mother in Chapter 7 is dated when?
(a) June 4, 2003.
(b) March 16, 2004.
(c) May 1, 2003.
(d) September 15, 2003.

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

5. Lieutenant Davis says in Chapter 10, “These people here have been at war for the last twenty or so years. Before they invaded Kuwait they were fighting with” whom?
(a) “Lebanon.”
(b) “Israel.”
(c) “Iran.”
(d) “Turkey.”

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the colonel that enters with Major Sessions at the meeting in Chapter 6?

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?

3. What is the Arabic news station called that has shown some of the prisoners that have been taken in Chapter 4?

4. What is the term used in Chapter 8 to refer to the person who leads prayers in a mosque?

5. In his letter to Uncle Richie in Chapter 11, Private Perry writes that what keep changing and can even change in the middle of the day?

(see the answer key)

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