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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Forty-Six, Going After Cacciato.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Paul Berlin consider majoring in when he thought of attending the University of Iowa?
(a) Architecture.
(b) Political Science.
(c) Education.
(d) Biology.

2. Why does the earths start shaking in Chapter 41?
(a) An aftershock from a quake.
(b) Lieutenant Corson has called in an airstrike a few miles away.
(c) Another squad is blowing tunnels.
(d) A typhoon is blowing in.

3. What action do the two older women continually do as they ride with Third Squad?
(a) Weeping.
(b) Stringing beans.
(c) Singing.
(d) Sewing.

4. What are the men entering at the very end of Chapter 41?
(a) A burning village.
(b) A scorched trail.
(c) The thick brush.
(d) A paddy.

5. How does Cacciato respond to the Third Squad's lighting a smoke grenade early in their pursuit?
(a) He fires on them.
(b) He speads up his pace.
(c) He lights his own smoke grenade.
(d) He waves at them.

Short Answer Questions

1. What season is it at the end of Chapter 40?

2. What does the boy in Chapter 31 do involuntarily from time to time?

3. To whom does Oscar Johnson offer the big gun before giving it to Harold Murphy?

4. In Chapter 19, what does Paul Berlin realize is the true value of the Cacciato pursuit?

5. At the end of Chapter 33, what does the brutal Iranian officer force Third Squad to call themselves?

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