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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What term is used in Chapter 9 to describe “a 400-gallon water carrier that could be hitched onto the back of a truck”?
(a) A Humvee.
(b) A “water buffalo.”
(c) A “Cyclops.”
(d) A Bradley.

4. 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.

5. What is the name of the man who meets the CA unit at the hospital after their meeting with the sheik in Chapter 14?
(a) Talib Al-Janabi.
(b) Hamid Faisal Al-Sadah.
(c) Halima Telfah.
(d) Muhammad Latif Al-Sadah.

6. The Special Ops guys that Perry’s unit is escorting in Chapter 10 say that they got some information from the confession box that there’s an IED factory located where?
(a) The Old City area.
(b) The Rusafa district
(c) The An Najaf district.
(d) The New City area.

7. Birdy says in Chapter 11 that they took Ahmed from their unit for the week and “sent him over to where they were setting up a jail or holding pen at” what location?
(a) “The Rusafa district.”
(b) “An Najaf.”
(c) “Abu Ghraib.”
(d) “An Nasiriyah.”

8. 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.

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

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

11. 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) Violence capital.
(b) Sunni capital.
(c) Body-bag capital.
(d) Shiite capital.

12. 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.

13. Where did Jerry Egri live before he left for the military?
(a) Chicago, Illinois.
(b) Little Rock, Arkansas.
(c) Detroit, Michigan.
(d) Cleveland, Ohio.

14. Where does Corporal Danforth say he’s from when Jonesy interviews him in Chapter 8?
(a) San Jose, California.
(b) Little Rock, Arkansas.
(c) Memphis, Tennessee.
(d) Richmond, Virginia.

15. What does the acronym “IED” refer to in the novel?
(a) “Imperative Exception Detail.”
(b) “Important Entry Device.”
(c) “Improvised Explosive Device.”
(d) “Implosive Electronic Device.”

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the CA unit soldiers offer to Jamil to come with them as a translator at the Republican Hospital in Chapter 11?

2. 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?

3. What is the first of the things that Jonesy says he likes about Iraq in Chapter 8?

4. 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?

5. The village that Perry, Jonesy, and their unit go to in Chapter 9 in order to make reparations for civilian deaths in an air raid is called what?

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