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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What are the names of Corporal Pendleton’s daughters?
2. 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?
3. What magazine does Private Perry take out a subscription to in Chapter 13?
4. Word has come down that Major Sessions was passed up for a promotion to what title in Chapter 11?
5. When Private Perry is preparing to go to a mosque with some chaplains and Corporal Kennedy in Chapter 8, he asks several people from his unit what they’d like him to bring back. Corporal Danforth says that he wants what?
Short Essay Questions
1. Where are the First, Second, and Third Squads of the CA unit sent in the end of Chapter 14? How is this setting described by Jonesy?
2. Where is Private Perry invited to go on a tour with Corporal Kennedy in Chapter 8?
3. What occurs as Private Perry and the others are returning to “The Bubble” after the tour in Chapter 8?
4. Whom do Perry’s team have tea with in Chapter 9? What do they learn from this character?
5. Who makes the discovery of the detonators in Chapter 10? Where are they located?
6. What game does Private Perry play with the Iraqi children in Al-Uhaimir in Chapter 9?
7. What does the CA unit do during their time in the Green Zone in Chapter 13?
8. How is the setting where Private Perry goes on tour with Corporal Kennedy described in Chapter 8?
9. Why is the CA unit to remain in the Green Zone for a period of time in Chapter 13?
10. What does Perry contemplate of the complexity of their situation in Iraq in Chapter 13?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the term “fog of war” as used in Chapter 6. What does this phrase mean? How does this apply to the situation at the village school where the CA unit is going? Who first uses this term?
Essay Topic 2
Analyze and discuss the character of Corporal Charlie Jones (“Jonesy”) in the novel. Why does Jonesy take Private Perry on as a friend soon after meeting him? Where is Jonesy from? How old is Jonesy? What kind of music does he love?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the members and duties of the soldiers in the First, Second, and Third Squads of the CA unit in Chapter 2. What squad is Private Perry assigned to? Who are his teammates in this squad? Who is the gunner?
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