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

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) Attempted murder.
(d) Marijuana possession.

2. What is the name of the Iraqi boy in Al-Uhaimir that sets up the soccer game between the American soldiers and the Iraqi children of the village in Chapter 12?
(a) Halima.
(b) Lopez.
(c) Corbin.
(d) Omar.

3. How many women are taken from the home where the detonators are found in Chapter 10?
(a) 4.
(b) 5.
(c) 2.
(d) 3.

4. Captain Coles comes to inform Perry’s unit after sunset in Chapter 10 that they will be escorting some Intelligence guys to a place in what district before sunrise?
(a) The Al-Uhaimir district.
(b) The Rusafa district.
(c) The An Nasiriyah district.
(d) The Kazimayn district.

5. How many men are arrested at the home where the detonators are found in Chapter 10?
(a) 6.
(b) 2.
(c) 4.
(d) 3.

6. The name that is given to the stuffed monkey in Chapter 9 is a character name from what World War II novel?
(a) A Farewell to Arms.
(b) Slaughterhouse-Five.
(c) The Naked and the Dead.
(d) Catch-22.

7. In the beginning of Chapter 10, Sergeant Harris and Jonesy get into an argument because “Sergeant Harris said that in a way most women weren’t much more than” what?
(a) “Panderers.”
(b) “Dogs.”
(c) “Whores.”
(d) “Slaves.”

8. What term from Chapter 14 refers to a Middle Eastern tobacco pipe with long, flexible tubes that draw the smoke through the water contained in a bowl?
(a) Hookah.
(b) Fallujah.
(c) Cygnet.
(d) Pamari.

9. Private Perry describes seeing a whole truckload of notebooks and school supplies that arrived for the Iraqi children from where in the U.S. in Chapter 14?
(a) Chicago, Illinois.
(b) Memphis, Tennessee.
(c) Forrest City, Arkansas.
(d) Kansas City, Missouri.

10. Along with the cured meats, what did the soldiers of the CA unit keep for themselves from the shipment of gifts from the Free Will Baptist Church in Chapter 13?
(a) The cookies and candy bars.
(b) The dresses and clothing.
(c) The cigarettes and liquor.
(d) The toys and dolls.

11. When learning about the civilian executions in Chapter 13, Private Perry thinks back to a basketball game he’d played against what high school?
(a) Jackson High School.
(b) Rutgers High School.
(c) Lane High School.
(d) Wilson High School.

12. 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 Bubble.”
(c) “The Blue Zone.”
(d) “The White Zone.”

13. Jonesy points out in Chapter 11 that the “Euphrates River looks blue and the Tigris looks” what color?
(a) “Clear.”
(b) “Black.”
(c) “Green.”
(d) “Brown.”

14. Jonesy says in Chapter 8 that if he could, he would take all of what back to Georgia and teach them the blues?
(a) The Iraqi children.
(b) The Kurds.
(c) The Iraqi men.
(d) The Iraqi children.

15. Where does Barbara say their Humvee was when they witnessed the explosion that killed two marines in Chapter 8?
(a) Near An Najaf.
(b) Near An Nasiriyah.
(c) Near Rasheed Airport.
(d) Near Zarah Square.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What idiom does Major Scott use when talking to the sheik to describe cooperation in Chapter 14?

3. Perry’s unit gets word in Chapter 13 that no one is to leave the Green Zone in groups of less than how many each?

4. What does the sheik tell the men from the CA unit to call him in Chapter 14?

5. When does Corporal Marla Kennedy say her birthday is in Chapter 14?

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