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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. On what date does Major Sessions tell the hospital administrator that the Iraqi boy they are looking for disappeared in Chapter 11?
(a) March 12.
(b) June 12.
(c) April 14.
(d) July 15.

2. Jonesy says he was in jail once in his life because he’d been charged with what crime in Chapter 11?
(a) Marijuana possession.
(b) Breaking and entering.
(c) Public intoxication.
(d) Attempted murder.

3. 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) “Lebanon.”
(b) “Turkey.”
(c) “Israel.”
(d) “Iran.”

4. 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.”

5. 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 Perry say he’d most like to take back?
(a) One of the Bradley vehicles.
(b) The Kevlar protection gear.
(c) A Humvee.
(d) The night vision equipment.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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?

3. What is the name of the Iraqi boy that the CA unit is trying to locate on their mission in Chapter 11?

4. 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?

5. When Corporal Rios receives a large package in the beginning of Chapter 9, the return address is from where?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where does Perry’s team go next in the pursuit of their mission after Major Sessions returns to camp in Chapter 11?

2. Who informs the CA unit that they are to remain in the Green Zone in Chapter 13?

3. How is the setting where Private Perry goes on tour with Corporal Kennedy described in Chapter 8?

4. Why does Corporal Rios say he ordered a monkey from eBay in Chapter 9?

5. What sports game takes place in Chapter 12? What is the purpose of the event?

6. What event takes place as Perry’s convoy is backed up in a line of vehicles in Chapter 12?

7. Whom do Perry’s team have tea with in Chapter 9? What do they learn from this character?

8. Who does Captain Coles introduce to the Civil Affairs unit in Chapter 10?

9. What does Perry contemplate of the complexity of their situation in Iraq in Chapter 13?

10. Where are the First, Second, and Third Squads of the CA unit sent in the end of Chapter 14? How is this setting described by Jonesy?

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