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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What idiom does Major Scott use when talking to the sheik to describe cooperation in Chapter 14?
(a) “A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.”
(b) “We scratch each others’ backs.”
(c) “One hand washes the other.”
(d) “Killing two birds with one stone.”

2. What is the name of the Special Ops guy who arrives for escort with Lieutenant Davis in Chapter 10?
(a) Colonel King.
(b) Lieutenant Nelson.
(c) Corporal Pendleton.
(d) Corporal Lawler.

3. What woman soldier from the 507th is said to have been possibly raped during her capture in Chapter 8?
(a) Corporal Pendleton.
(b) Corporal Lynch.
(c) Captain Miller.
(d) Corporal Kennedy.

4. Private Perry recalls having been stopped on what New York street and searched by plainclothes police in Chapter 10?
(a) 12th Street.
(b) 111th Street.
(c) Broadway.
(d) 136th Street.

5. Where does Jonesy say they’re going out again in Chapter 12, which the narrator describes as running “through some of the worst territory for ambushes in Iraq”?
(a) Highway 7.
(b) Highway 10.
(c) Highway 4.
(d) Highway 20.

6. The captain in the marines that talks to Captain Cole after the unit’s meeting with the sheik in Chapter 14 says that Fallujah is the what capital of the region?
(a) Shiite capital.
(b) Sunni capital.
(c) Body-bag capital.
(d) Violence capital.

7. 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 toys and dolls.
(b) The cigarettes and liquor.
(c) The dresses and clothing.
(d) The cookies and candy bars.

8. The mosque that Private Perry visits with other CA soldiers in Chapter 8 is located in what area north of Baghdad?
(a) An Najaf.
(b) Al Jazeera.
(c) Kazimayn.
(d) An Nasiriyah.

9. When Private Perry is preparing to go to a mosque with some chaplains and Corporal Kennedy in Chapter 8, he asks several people from his unit what they’d like him to bring back. Corporal Danforth says that he wants what?
(a) A woman with three breasts.
(b) A woman wearing a burka.
(c) Fried chicken.
(d) A puppy dog.

10. 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?
(a) Corporal Evans.
(b) Colonel King.
(c) Captain Coles.
(d) Captain Miller.

11. How old is Captain Coles’s daughter that has been hospitalized in Chapter 12?
(a) 3.
(b) 9.
(c) 5.
(d) 2.

12. When the CA unit is informed that they are not to leave the Green Zone in small numbers, Captain Coles goes to find out what happened at Corporal Kennedy’s request in Chapter 13. He returns with news that a marine unit found a bunch of civilians dead where?
(a) In a cemetery.
(b) In a garage.
(c) In a political hall.
(d) In a mosque.

13. Who initially refuses to give Jonesy any painkillers for his toothache in Chapter 13?
(a) Corporal Evans.
(b) Private Perry.
(c) Corporal Kennedy.
(d) Captain Miller.

14. How much money does Private Perry lose in the poker game in Chapter 12?
(a) $20.
(b) $30.
(c) $10.
(d) $50.

15. 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?
(a) 7.
(b) 10.
(c) 2.
(d) 6.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Jonesy say that Oprah Winfrey got her name in Chapter 9?

2. Jonesy says in Chapter 8 that if he could, he would take all of what back to Georgia and teach them the blues?

3. In Chapter 14, Private Perry and his friends discuss how much they wish they could take their equipment back home with them. What item does Jonesy say he would most want to take back with him to the States?

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

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?

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