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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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) “Slaves.”
(b) “Panderers.”
(c) “Whores.”
(d) “Dogs.”

3. According to the narrator in Chapter 11, “For every one of the coalition people that got killed, there were” how many dead Iraqis?
(a) “From ten to twenty.”
(b) “From thirty to fifty.”
(c) “From five to ten.”
(d) “From twenty to thirty.”

4. Captain Coles says to Private Perry in Chapter 13 regarding the war, “It teaches you things, though. What it’s taught me is” what?
(a) “That I wish I’d followed my father’s advice and quit the military when I had a chance.”
(b) “That I love my wife and family more than I knew, and a lot more than I ever told them.”
(c) “That I value my life more than I thought I did. And that I wish I were home with my family.”
(d) “That my former regrets are meaningless, and life is worth living in the moment.”

5. What is the term used in Chapter 8 to refer to the person who leads prayers in a mosque?
(a) Sultan.
(b) Jurist.
(c) Shah.
(d) Imam.

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

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

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

9. What name is given to the stuffed monkey that Corporal Rios received in the mail in Chapter 9?
(a) Sergeant Walters.
(b) Sergeant Yossarian.
(c) Captain Jackson.
(d) Colonel White.

10. Who ends up claiming the monkey that Corporal Rios receives from eBay in Chapter 9?
(a) Specialist Darcy.
(b) Corporal Kennedy.
(c) Captain Coles.
(d) Ahmed Sabbat.

11. During the two weeks that the CA unit stays in the Green Zone in Chapter 13, Perry says that “The only work we did for the entire time was unload a truckload of gifts from the Free Will Baptist Church” located where?
(a) Martinsburg, West Virginia.
(b) Selena, California.
(c) Jackson, Mississippi.
(d) Arkadelphia, Arkansas.

12. 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 Bradley.
(c) A “Cyclops.”
(d) A “water buffalo.”

13. 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) Rutgers High School.
(b) Lane High School.
(c) Wilson High School.
(d) Jackson High School.

14. 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) “Survivor.”
(b) "Birthday."
(c) "Illusions."
(d) "Get on the Bus."

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What woman soldier from the 507th is said to have been possibly raped during her capture in Chapter 8?

2. Where does Corporal Danforth say he’s from when Jonesy interviews him in Chapter 8?

3. In the soccer game that Jonesy sets up in Chapter 12, who agrees to get Third Squad to play if he can be the goalie?

4. What tribal leader has complained in the beginning of Chapter 14 that the Coalition was not protecting his people and that a number of young men from his area had been killed when they entered Fallujah?

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

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