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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 15.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The first Gulf War (“Operation Desert Storm”) was waged by a U.N. coalition force of 34 nations against Iraq in response to what?
(a) Iraq’s invasion of Libya.
(b) The 9/11 attacks.
(c) Iraq’s invasion of Iran.
(d) Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait.

3. When does Corporal Marla Kennedy say her birthday is in Chapter 14?
(a) April 11.
(b) August 12.
(c) March 11.
(d) June 16.

4. In Chapter 14, Private Perry and his friends discuss how much they wish they could take their equipment back home with them. What item does Jonesy say he would most want to take back with him to the States?
(a) An AK-47.
(b) One of the Bradley vehicles.
(c) An M-16.
(d) The Kevlar protection gear.

5. Where does Jonesy say they’re going out again in Chapter 12, which the narrator describes as running “through some of the worst territory for ambushes in Iraq”?
(a) Highway 7.
(b) Highway 4.
(c) Highway 20.
(d) Highway 10.

Short Answer Questions

1. Jonesy points out in Chapter 11 that the “Euphrates River looks blue and the Tigris looks” what color?

2. How old does Jean Darcy say her great-grandmother is in Chapter 3?

3. In Chapter 3, the narrator says that the troops just heard a lecture from what individual “who was in charge of all Civil Affairs in the area”?

4. When the CA unit is informed that they are not to leave the Green Zone in small numbers, Captain Coles goes to find out what happened at Corporal Kennedy’s request in Chapter 13. He returns with news that a marine unit found a bunch of civilians dead where?

5. The narrator says in Chapter 6 that “the guys from the 3rd ID and the 4th Marines were bopping around Baghdad and getting on television” because they had been present when what was torn down?

(see the answer key)

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