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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through “War Stories”.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the acronym EOD represent?
(a) Endangered Operational Deployment.
(b) Explosive Ordnance Disposal.
(c) Explosive Operative Device.
(d) External Operating Device.

2. What does the narrator put into Dyer's hand in the end of "FRAGO"?
(a) A fork.
(b) A knife.
(c) A spoon.
(d) A gun.

3. Who reads aloud Jenks's words about his injury in "War Stories"?
(a) Betty.
(b) Wilson.
(c) Marie.
(d) Sarah.

4. Who is the priest's former mentor in "Prayer in the Furnace"?
(a) Father Skawinski.
(b) Father Connelly.
(c) Father O'Leary.
(d) Father Smith.

5. What did Wilson and Jenks spend most of their time doing when deployed in Iraq?
(a) Cleaning bodies for Morturary Affairs.
(b) Building and repairing roads.
(c) Sending radio signals.
(d) Paperwork.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator do when he opens his mail to find pictures of his naked girlfriend in "Bodies"?

2. What word from "In Vietnam They Had Whores" refers to the seasonal wind of the Indian Ocean and southern Asia?

3. Who married a forty-year-old with two kids two weeks before deployment, according to the narrator in "After Action Report"?

4. What is the narrator's hometown in "Bodies"?

5. Where does Corporal G convince the narrator to go with him when they get a nintey-six in "Bodies"?

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