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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. While playing poker with the unit in Chapter 12, Corporal Kennedy bluffs and claims she has two pair. What pair does she claim to have?
(a) Jacks over eights.
(b) Queens over tens.
(c) Kings over sevens.
(d) Tens over sixes.

2. The narrator says in Chapter 8, “The 3rd and 4th Marines had secured an area in downtown Baghdad they were calling” what?
(a) “The Bubble.”
(b) “The White Zone.”
(c) “The Blue Zone.”
(d) “The Black Zone.”

3. The 3rd Infantry Division is generally following what group that enters Iraq first in Chapter 4?
(a) The Political Brigade.
(b) The Air Force.
(c) The Marines.
(d) The Special Ops.

4. What woman soldier from the 507th is said to have been possibly raped during her capture in Chapter 8?
(a) Corporal Lynch.
(b) Corporal Kennedy.
(c) Corporal Pendleton.
(d) Captain Miller.

5. What television station does the narrator’s squad pick up after stopping to camp for the night in Iraq in Chapter 4?
(a) CBS.
(b) CNN.
(c) FOX.
(d) NBC.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Barbara say their Humvee was when they witnessed the explosion that killed two marines in Chapter 8?

2. What are the names of Corporal Pendleton’s daughters?

3. What does the acronym “IED” refer to in the novel?

4. What is the Arabic news station called that has shown some of the prisoners that have been taken in Chapter 4?

5. What is the name of the Iraqi boy in Al-Uhaimir that sets up the soccer game between the American soldiers and the Iraqi children of the village in Chapter 12?

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