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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Private Perry describe his grandmother going to “drink tea from glasses instead of cups” when she was young in Chapter 9?
(a) The West Village, Manhattan.
(b) The Lower East Side, Manhattan.
(c) The Bronx, New York.
(d) The Upper East Side, Manhattan.

2. 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?
(a) In a mosque.
(b) In a cemetery.
(c) In a garage.
(d) In a political hall.

3. Jonesy says in Chapter 8 that if he could, he would take all of what back to Georgia and teach them the blues?
(a) The Iraqi children.
(b) The Iraqi children.
(c) The Iraqi men.
(d) The Kurds.

4. 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.

5. What term is used in Chapter 9 to describe “a 400-gallon water carrier that could be hitched onto the back of a truck”?
(a) A Bradley.
(b) A “water buffalo.”
(c) A Humvee.
(d) A “Cyclops.”

6. In the beginning of Chapter 10, Sergeant Harris and Jonesy get into an argument because “Sergeant Harris said that in a way most women weren’t much more than” what?
(a) “Panderers.”
(b) “Dogs.”
(c) “Whores.”
(d) “Slaves.”

7. When Corporal Rios receives a large package in the beginning of Chapter 9, the return address is from where?
(a) Kansas.
(b) California.
(c) Washington.
(d) Wyoming.

8. Major Sessions tells the CA unit about their next mission in the beginning of Chapter 11. Their mission is to help an Iraqi woman locate her lost son. How old is the boy?
(a) 12.
(b) 16.
(c) 14.
(d) 10.

9. Who does Perry say had painted some Iraqi people and scenes using watercolors in Chapter 14?
(a) Lieutenant Nelson.
(b) Colonel King.
(c) Corporal Pendleton.
(d) Specialist Darcy.

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

11. Captain Coles says to Private Perry in Chapter 13 regarding the war, “It teaches you things, though. What it’s taught me is” what?
(a) “That my former regrets are meaningless, and life is worth living in the moment.”
(b) “That I value my life more than I thought I did. And that I wish I were home with my family.”
(c) “That I wish I’d followed my father’s advice and quit the military when I had a chance.”
(d) “That I love my wife and family more than I knew, and a lot more than I ever told them.”

12. 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 ziggurat.
(c) A charlatan.
(d) A prism.

13. How many women are taken from the home where the detonators are found in Chapter 10?
(a) 5.
(b) 2.
(c) 4.
(d) 3.

14. What are the names of Corporal Pendleton’s daughters?
(a) Elizabeth and Marie.
(b) Michelle and Mary.
(c) Sarah and Sally.
(d) Kayla and Karen.

15. After unloading the shipment of gifts from the Free Will Baptist Church in Chapter 13, Perry says that they argued over whether what cured meat is pork or beef?
(a) Ham.
(b) Pepperoni.
(c) Pastrami.
(d) Salami.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

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”?

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. What is the first of the things that Jonesy says he likes about Iraq in Chapter 8?

5. What is the name of the Special Ops guy who arrives for escort with Lieutenant Davis in Chapter 10?

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