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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. What is the name of the Iraqi boy that the CA unit is trying to locate on their mission in Chapter 11?
(a) Muhammad An Najaf.
(b) Muhammad Latif Al-Sadah.
(c) Muhammad Kazimayn-Sadah.
(d) Halima Telfah.

2. In his letter to Uncle Richie in Chapter 11, Private Perry says that his mother has been asking if she can send him anything. What does Perry request that his uncle have her send if money isn’t too tight?
(a) Chocolate candy.
(b) Toy dolls.
(c) A magazine subscription.
(d) A pocket watch.

3. 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 charlatan.
(b) A ziggurat.
(c) An oasis.
(d) A prism.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. On what date does Major Sessions tell the hospital administrator that the Iraqi boy they are looking for disappeared in Chapter 11?

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

3. 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?

4. What battalion is described as “the main CA support group attached to the 3rd Infantry” in Chapter 9?

5. Captain Coles says of the civilians that were found dead in Chapter 13, “From what I gathered the thinking is that they were killed by one of” what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What causes the argument between Jonesy and Sergeant Harris in Chapter 10?

2. How is the character of Jerry Egri described in Chapter 12?

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

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

5. Why is the CA unit to remain in the Green Zone for a period of time in Chapter 13?

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

7. What does Corporal Rios find when he opens the package from eBay in Chapter 9?

8. What mission is related to the CA unit from Major Sessions in Chapter 11?

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

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

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