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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. In Chapter 3, what was the season in Iraq that Bartle remembers as being distinctive?
(a) Winter.
(b) Spring.
(c) Summer.
(d) Fall.

2. What is the date in Chapter 3?
(a) March 2005.
(b) May 2005.
(c) April 2005.
(d) June 2005.

3. Where was Bartle in Chapter 3?
(a) Iraq.
(b) Virginia.
(c) Germany.
(d) Texas.

4. In Chapter 2, what does Bartle learn later that the weather was when Mrs. Murphy read the letter he wrote in Murph's name?
(a) Sunny.
(b) Stormy.
(c) Rainy.
(d) Snowy.

5. In Chapter 4, what was the name of Murph's girlfriend?
(a) Rachel.
(b) Marie.
(c) Hannah.
(d) Susannah.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 4, where did a colonel say that men would be sent if they died in the upcoming battle?

2. In Chapter 3, where was the bargirl hurt when Sterling shoved her?

3. How old was the church that Bartle visited in Chapter 3?

4. What news did Murph receive in Chapter 4?

5. In Chapter 1, what color jalopies did people ride in in Al Tafar?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 1, who was Spc. Miriam Jackson, and how did she die?

2. How many had the war killed by September in Chapter 1?

3. How did Bartle describe a photograph that he saw of Murph and his girlfriend?

4. In Chapter 2, how did the days pass as Bartle and Murph's ship-out date approached?

5. How did Bartle describe the bargirl he meets in Chapter 3?

6. In Chapter 5, what did the men on the plane from Germany do when they see the ocean?

7. What did Bartle think about when he looked at the battalion scattered throughout the plane from Germany?

8. At the beginning of Chapter 4, what were conditions like for Bartle?

9. Why did a colonel come to the area where Bartle was in Chapter 4?

10. Where had Murph been before he went in the Army?

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