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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 15.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Jonesy says he was in jail once in his life because he’d been charged with what crime in Chapter 11?
(a) Breaking and entering.
(b) Public intoxication.
(c) Marijuana possession.
(d) Attempted murder.

2. 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) A prism.
(b) A charlatan.
(c) A ziggurat.
(d) An oasis.

3. What word from Chapter 12 refers to a loose hooded cloak, typically woolen, traditionally worn by Arabs?
(a) Bashuka.
(b) Sari.
(c) Djellaba.
(d) Burka.

4. What is the First Squad painting at the Iraqi military school in the beginning of Chapter 6?
(a) A church.
(b) Port-O-Potties.
(c) A school.
(d) A Humvee.

5. While playing poker with the unit in Chapter 12, Corporal Kennedy bluffs and claims she has two pair. What pair does she claim to have?
(a) Queens over tens.
(b) Tens over sixes.
(c) Jacks over eights.
(d) Kings over sevens.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Barbara say their Humvee was when they witnessed the explosion that killed two marines in Chapter 8?

2. What is the name of the colonel from the 422nd that comes by and says a prayer with the “God Squad” for Pendleton in Chapter 13?

3. 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?

4. 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?

5. Major Sessions tells the CA unit about their next mission in the beginning of Chapter 11. Their mission is to help an Iraqi woman locate her lost son. How old is the boy?

(see the answer key)

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