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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Corporal Charlie Jones give as his hometown in Chapter 1?
(a) Tampa, Florida.
(b) Harlem, New York.
(c) Stone Mountain, Georgia.
(d) Dix Hills, New York.

2. 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) Corporal Pendleton.
(b) Lieutenant Nelson.
(c) Corporal Rios.
(d) Halima Telfah.

3. Jonesy tells the narrator in Chapter 3, “Most of my training was about” doing what “when you heard gunfire”?
(a) “Jumping up.”
(b) “Shooting back.”
(c) “Diving down.”
(d) “Calling the cops.”

4. Private Robin Perry says that he is from where originally in Chapter 1?
(a) Stone Mountain, Georgia.
(b) Tampa, Florida.
(c) Dix Hills, New York.
(d) Harlem, New York.

5. Who is described in Chapter 6 as “Saddam’s fourth or fifth cousin” that “spoke a little English and was between one hundred and two hundred years old”?
(a) Jamil Sidqi al-Tikrit.
(b) Ahmed Sabbat.
(c) Halima Telfah.
(d) Captain Coles.

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

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

8. Who is the driver in the Second Squad in Chapter 2?
(a) Sergeant Harris.
(b) Colonel King.
(c) Captain Coles.
(d) Lieutenant Nelson.

9. What is the Arabic news station called that has shown some of the prisoners that have been taken in Chapter 4?
(a) Al Jazeera.
(b) Kazimayn.
(c) An Nasiriyah.
(d) Abu Ghraib.

10. Robin describes Jonesy as a guy in his unit from where in the letter in the Prologue?
(a) Kansas.
(b) Georgia.
(c) Arkansas.
(d) Mississippi.

11. What is the name of the field interpreter for the narrator’s team in Chapter 2?
(a) Halima Telfah.
(b) Ahmed Sabbat.
(c) Muhammad Latif Al-Sadah.
(d) Lieutenant Nelson.

12. When Captain Coles tells the narrator that they’re changing direction in Chapter 5, he explains, “The 204th Medical called asking for some help south of” what location?
(a) “An Najaf.”
(b) “An Nasiriyah.”
(c) “Al Jazeera.”
(d) “Kazimayn.”

13. Who shoots and kills the injured man that begins shooting at the narrator’s squad with a pistol in Chapter 5?
(a) Captain Coles.
(b) Sergeant Harris.
(c) Specialist Darcy.
(d) Captain Miller.

14. Harris says that he served on tour where in the first Gulf War in Chapter 6?
(a) Iran.
(b) Bolivia.
(c) Qatar.
(d) Vietnam.

15. Private Perry’s mother says in her letter in Chapter 7 that something is finally being done with the buildings on what street?
(a) Kennedy Street.
(b) Park Avenue.
(c) Lenox Avenue.
(d) Anderson Street.

Short Answer 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?

2. Where does the prisoner that the narrator’s squad takes say he learned to speak English in Chapter 5?

3. In his letter in the Prologue, Robin says he is less than a hundred miles from what country’s border?

4. The first Gulf War (“Operation Desert Storm”) was waged by a U.N. coalition force of 34 nations against Iraq in response to what?

5. When Perry’s team arrives at the bombed school in Chapter 6, the troops that are patrolling the area are from where, according to Captain Coles?

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