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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did Jerry Egri live before he left for the military?
(a) Little Rock, Arkansas.
(b) Detroit, Michigan.
(c) Cleveland, Ohio.
(d) Chicago, Illinois.

2. 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 20.
(b) Highway 4.
(c) Highway 10.
(d) Highway 7.

3. What soldier from PSYOP is described in Chapter 12 as “A tall guy, he played poker wearing a cowboy hat and chewing on a skinny cigar that wiggled up and down when he talked”?
(a) Corporal Kennedy.
(b) Captain Coles.
(c) Sergeant Harris.
(d) Lieutenant Colonel Petridus.

4. Perry’s unit gets word in Chapter 13 that no one is to leave the Green Zone in groups of less than how many each?
(a) 2.
(b) 10.
(c) 7.
(d) 6.

5. What is the name of the Iraqi boy that the CA unit is trying to locate on their mission in Chapter 11?
(a) Muhammad Kazimayn-Sadah.
(b) Muhammad Latif Al-Sadah.
(c) Halima Telfah.
(d) Muhammad An Najaf.

6. During the two weeks that the CA unit stays in the Green Zone in Chapter 13, Perry says that “The only work we did for the entire time was unload a truckload of gifts from the Free Will Baptist Church” located where?
(a) Jackson, Mississippi.
(b) Arkadelphia, Arkansas.
(c) Martinsburg, West Virginia.
(d) Selena, California.

7. Jonesy says he was in jail once in his life because he’d been charged with what crime in Chapter 11?
(a) Marijuana possession.
(b) Public intoxication.
(c) Attempted murder.
(d) Breaking and entering.

8. How many men are arrested at the home where the detonators are found in Chapter 10?
(a) 4.
(b) 6.
(c) 3.
(d) 2.

9. To which of the two main branches of Islam did Saddam Hussein belong, according to the narrator in Chapter 8?
(a) Kurd.
(b) Mawlaw'īyya.
(c) Sunni.
(d) Shiite.

10. What term from Chapter 14 refers to a Middle Eastern tobacco pipe with long, flexible tubes that draw the smoke through the water contained in a bowl?
(a) Hookah.
(b) Fallujah.
(c) Cygnet.
(d) Pamari.

11. 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?
(a) Halima.
(b) Omar.
(c) Lopez.
(d) Corbin.

12. The Special Ops guys that Perry’s unit is escorting in Chapter 10 say that they got some information from the confession box that there’s an IED factory located where?
(a) The New City area.
(b) The Rusafa district
(c) The Old City area.
(d) The An Najaf district.

13. What is the name of the woman who speaks English and has invited Captain Miller and the others to tea in Chapter 9?
(a) Halima Telfah.
(b) Major Sessions.
(c) An Nasiriyah.
(d) An Najaf.

14. Where does Jonesy say that Oprah Winfrey got her name in Chapter 9?
(a) From the Bible.
(b) From a blues song.
(c) From African folklore.
(d) From a women’s magazine.

15. What is the name of the man who meets the CA unit at the hospital after their meeting with the sheik in Chapter 14?
(a) Halima Telfah.
(b) Talib Al-Janabi.
(c) Muhammad Latif Al-Sadah.
(d) Hamid Faisal Al-Sadah.

Short Answer Questions

1. The stuffed monkey that Corporal Rios receives in the mail in Chapter 9 is what kind of monkey, according to Captain Miller?

2. 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 Perry say he’d most like to take back?

3. Lieutenant Davis says in Chapter 10, “These people here have been at war for the last twenty or so years. Before they invaded Kuwait they were fighting with” whom?

4. Who does Perry say had painted some Iraqi people and scenes using watercolors in Chapter 14?

5. Private Perry describes seeing a whole truckload of notebooks and school supplies that arrived for the Iraqi children from where in the U.S. in Chapter 14?

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