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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the DI the narrator describes having beaten an Iraqi to death with a radio in "After Action Report"?
(a) Lance Corporal MacClelland.
(b) Corporal Weissert.
(c) Staff Sergeant Black.
(d) Lance Corporal Jobrani.

2. Who is the narrator's senior drill instructor in "Bodies"?
(a) Staff Sergeant Kerwin.
(b) Staff Sergeant Burke.
(c) Staff Sergeant Anderson.
(d) Staff Sergeant Price.

3. What happens to the Marine whose legs are blown off in the explosion in "OIF"?
(a) He is dishonorably discharged.
(b) He recovers and is awarded a Purple Heart.
(c) He dies in surgery.
(d) He goes on to become Corporal.

4. What is the narrator's hometown in "Bodies"?
(a) Malvern.
(b) Callaway.
(c) St. Louis.
(d) Jackson.

5. Where does Cpl Sweet get shot in "FRAGO"?
(a) In the foot.
(b) In the thigh.
(c) In the neck.
(d) In the arm.

6. How is the narrator's hometown described in "Bodies"?
(a) Small.
(b) Artsy and academic.
(c) On the outskirts of a large city.
(d) Big.

7. What does the military acronym SSTP represent?
(a) Standard Surgical Trauma Position.
(b) Special Surgical Trauma Protocol.
(c) Special State Thread Protocol.
(d) Surgical Shock Trauma Platoon.

8. What do the Marines drop into the basement to disorient the enemy in "FRAGO"?
(a) An AK-47.
(b) A flashbang.
(c) A M870.
(d) A grenade.

9. What does DI stand for in "OIF"?
(a) Drill Instructor.
(b) Double Indemnity.
(c) Detail Instructor.
(d) Drive Instructor.

10. Who married a forty-year-old with two kids two weeks before deployment, according to the narrator in "After Action Report"?
(a) Sergeant Kurtz.
(b) Sergeant Price.
(c) Lance Corporal Suba.
(d) Lance Corporal Jobrani.

11. How old is Cindy in “Money as a Weapons System”?
(a) In her fifties.
(b) In her forties.
(c) In her twenties.
(d) In her thirties.

12. Who orders five beers at once during the refueling stop in "Redeployment"?
(a) Corporal O'Leary.
(b) Sergeant Price.
(c) Lieutenant Eicholtz.
(d) Corporal Weissert.

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

14. When was the narrator first told the story about the body bag in "Bodies"?
(a) 2004.
(b) 2003.
(c) 2005.
(d) 2002.

15. How old is the woman at the bar that Corporal G tries to set up with the narrator in "Bodies"?
(a) 38.
(b) 19.
(c) 32.
(d) 29.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the narrator in "Redeployment"?

2. Who is described as "the sober Mormon" in "Redeployment"?

3. Whose desk is Nathan instructed to take at his new office in Tikrit in “Money as a Weapons System”?

4. Who shoots the young Iraqi boy in "After Action Report"?

5. Whom does the narrator describe covered in blood in "Redeployment"?

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