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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 5, when General Chiarelli has his monthly meeting, how many suicides does he have to discuss?
(a) 41.
(b) 32.
(c) 28.
(d) 19.

2. When Tausolo is trying to get into the WTB in Chapter 3, how many other soldiers are also trying to get in?
(a) 9.
(b) 11.
(c) 7.
(d) 13.

3. How old is Amanda in Chapter 2?
(a) 28.
(b) 34.
(c) 31.
(d) 26.

4. How many soldiers did General Chiarelli lose during the course of a year during his first deployment to Iraq when he was a division commander?
(a) 159.
(b) 147.
(c) 169.
(d) 182.

5. In Chapter 1, what does Adam remember feeling when he came home and walked across the tarmac?
(a) Tired.
(b) Ashamed.
(c) Angry.
(d) Desperate.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who taught Adam about boats and fixing them?

2. Where did Tausolo work before the joined the army?

3. In Chapter 4, what game do Nic and Sascha play when she visits him at the psychiatric facility?

4. In Chapter 1, how many men does Adam say were in his platoon?

5. What family member alerted the military that a staff sergeant was exhibiting paranoid behavior and acting irrationally?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are some things that have been discovered as the army has tried to determine causes for the high rate of suicide among soldiers?

2. In Chapter 7, what does Amanda do for the anniversary of James's death?

3. What does Tausolo keep seeing in his dreams at night and sometimes in the daytime in Chapter 3 and what does he realize about what he sees?

4. How does Sascha react when Nic tells her about an incident from the war in Chapter 4?

5. Why does Tausolo have to go back to Samoa in Chapter 3?

6. What is post-traumatic stress disorder and what causes it?

7. In Chapter 8, what does Adam tell Patti Walker that he misses?

8. Why did Chiarelli's men approach him when it was time to erect a memorial for the men who died the first year of Chairelli's first deployment?

9. What is Adam's job in Chapter 5, and where would he rather work instead?

10. In the Prlogue, how did the way that Adam felt about the war change?

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