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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Private Robin Perry says that he is from where originally in Chapter 1?
(a) Dix Hills, New York.
(b) Tampa, Florida.
(c) Harlem, New York.
(d) Stone Mountain, Georgia.

2. How old does Jean Darcy say her great-grandmother is in Chapter 3?
(a) 90 years old.
(b) 85 years old.
(c) 80 years old.
(d) 75 years old.

3. Where is Corporal Marla Kennedy from originally?
(a) Harlem, New York.
(b) Stone Mountain, Georgia.
(c) Tampa, Florida.
(d) Dix Hills, New York.

4. What does Corporal Kennedy say the line of green objects on the ground are that can be seen as the squad drives across the Iraqi border in Chapter 4?
(a) Body bags.
(b) Flour bags.
(c) Luggage.
(d) Water bags.

5. What is the name of the song that Jonesy writes about the sandstorm in Chapter 4?
(a) “I Hate Your Mother Worse Than I Hate This Sand Blues.”
(b) “It’s a Long Way to Yesterday and a Longer Way til Tomorrow.”
(c) “Yesterday’s Blues and Tomorrow’s Rainbows.”
(d) “I Wanna Sing You a Song Baby That Ain’t the Blues.”

Short Answer Questions

1. Who shoots and kills the injured man that begins shooting at the narrator’s squad with a pistol in Chapter 5?

2. What are the initials that are tattooed on Lopez’s hand, according to the narrator in Chapter 2?

3. Jonesy tells the narrator in Chapter 3, “Most of my training was about” doing what “when you heard gunfire”?

4. What regiment is described as the first confirmed casualties in Chapter 4?

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

(see the answer key)

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