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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What magazine does Private Perry take out a subscription to in Chapter 13?
(a) Oprah Magazine.
(b) The New Yorker.
(c) GQ Magazine.
(d) The Source.

2. 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 Rusafa district
(b) The Old City area.
(c) The An Najaf district.
(d) The New City area.

3. After unloading the shipment of gifts from the Free Will Baptist Church in Chapter 13, Perry says that they argued over whether what cured meat is pork or beef?
(a) Pastrami.
(b) Pepperoni.
(c) Ham.
(d) Salami.

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

5. What song by Destiny’s Child does Jonesy begin singing as the unit heads out on their mission as escorts for the Special Ops guys in Chapter 10?
(a) "Get on the Bus."
(b) "Birthday."
(c) "Illusions."
(d) “Survivor.”

6. 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 Kurds.
(b) The Iraqi men.
(c) The Iraqi children.
(d) The Iraqi children.

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

8. What is the name of the chaplain that comes over and tells Perry’s unit how proud the folks back home are of them after the soccer game in Chapter 12?
(a) Chaplain Darcy.
(b) Chaplain Nichols.
(c) Chaplain Sabbat.
(d) Chaplain Harris.

9. 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?
(a) “Turkey.”
(b) “Israel.”
(c) “Lebanon.”
(d) “Iran.”

10. What does the acronym “RPG” refer to in the narrative?
(a) “Radio-Protected Garrison.”
(b) “Rocket-Propelled Grenade.”
(c) “Respected Public Guard.”
(d) “Retrograde Personnel Garrison.”

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

12. 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 wearing a burka.
(b) Fried chicken.
(c) A puppy dog.
(d) A woman with three breasts.

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

14. When the CA unit watches cartoons and decides to map out a plan for Wile E. Coyote to finally trap the Road Runner in Chapter 12, they develop a set of specs to send to what corporation?
(a) The Ozone Corporation.
(b) The Brickman Corporation.
(c) The Acme Corporation.
(d) The Kazimayn Corporation.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Corporal Kennedy describe growing up in Chapter 10?

2. Who ends up claiming the monkey that Corporal Rios receives from eBay in Chapter 9?

3. Who does Perry say had painted some Iraqi people and scenes using watercolors in Chapter 14?

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

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

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