Marine slayings shake Tennessee

Q: Four Marines and their attacker were killed and three other people were injured last week in attacks on U.S. military facilities in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Where is Tennessee?

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Q: The gunman who targeted U.S. military service members was a 24-year-old electrical engineer who had grown up in Chattanooga as part of a conservative Muslim family. Chattanooga is on the border with what state southeast of Tennessee?

A. Georgia

B. Kentucky

C. Missouri

D. Virginia

Q: Mohammad Youssef Abdulazeez was born in Kuwait but moved with his family to the United States as an infant after the start of the Persian Gulf War and became a U.S. citizen. Which neighboring nation invaded Kuwait to start the war?

A. India

B. Iran

C. Iraq

D. Israel

Q: The Chattanooga shooting came nearly a month after another gunman killed nine people in a church about 345 miles east-southeast in Charleston . . .

A. Florida

B. Georgia

C. North Carolina

D. South Carolina

Q: The gunman went to grade school and high school in Chattanooga and earned an engineering degree from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. Chattanooga is the fourth largest city in Tennessee. What is the largest city in the state?

A. Knoxville

B. Memphis

C. Nashville

D. Savannah


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