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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The dozen or soldiers that the narrator is a part of are acting as what team in Chapter 2?
(a) The lead team.
(b) The fourth team.
(c) The flex team.
(d) The insertion team.

2. What does “KIA” represent in the narrative?
(a) Kullen Iraqi Authority.
(b) Killed in Action.
(c) Kruger Indian Authority.
(d) Killed in Absence.

3. After reading the letter from his mother in Chapter 7, Private Perry thinks about how she said he was always what type of individual?
(a) Driven.
(b) Brave.
(c) Sickly.
(d) Ambitious.

4. What does Ahmed call the redbrick mound that “seemed almost to shimmer in the bright sunlight” and where the Mesopotamians supposedly built shrines, in Chapter 9?
(a) An oasis.
(b) A charlatan.
(c) A ziggurat.
(d) A prism.

5. The name that is given to the stuffed monkey in Chapter 9 is a character name from what World War II novel?
(a) Catch-22.
(b) The Naked and the Dead.
(c) Slaughterhouse-Five.
(d) A Farewell to Arms.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Private Perry’s mother?

2. The narrator describes watching a film about Saddam Hussein in Chapter 2. What people in the film are described as having been gassed?

3. When Corporal Rios receives a large package in the beginning of Chapter 9, the return address is from where?

4. Who is the baseball player on the Yankees t-shirt that one of the Iraqi children is wearing in Chapter 5?

5. What name is given to the stuffed monkey that Corporal Rios received in the mail in Chapter 9?

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