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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. 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?
(a) 16.
(b) 12.
(c) 14.
(d) 10.

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

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?
(a) Colonel King.
(b) Corporal Pendleton.
(c) Corporal Rios.
(d) Lieutenant Nelson.

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 love my wife and family more than I knew, and a lot more than I ever told them.”
(b) “That my former regrets are meaningless, and life is worth living in the moment.”
(c) “That I value my life more than I thought I did. And that I wish I were home with my family.”
(d) “That I wish I’d followed my father’s advice and quit the military when I had a chance.”

5. Word has come down that Major Sessions was passed up for a promotion to what title in Chapter 11?
(a) Lieutenant Colonel.
(b) General.
(c) Colonel.
(d) Sergeant Colonel.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jerry Egri say he did back home in Chapter 12?

2. Private Perry recalls having been stopped on what New York street and searched by plainclothes police in Chapter 10?

3. Jonesy points out in Chapter 11 that the “Euphrates River looks blue and the Tigris looks” what color?

4. 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?

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

1. What occurs as Private Perry and the others are returning to “The Bubble” after the tour in Chapter 8?

2. Where does Private Perry’s CA unit find success in their mission in Chapter 11?

3. What does the CA unit do during their time in the Green Zone in Chapter 13?

4. Where is Private Perry invited to go on a tour with Corporal Kennedy in Chapter 8?

5. How does Private Perry come to rescue Captain Miller in Chapter 14?

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

7. What mission is the CA unit assigned in Chapter 10? Where is the mission located?

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

9. How is the setting of the meeting site described in Chapter 14? Who leads the discussion with the sheikh?

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

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