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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 do everyone who goes up with Pick in a plane think about his flying experience?

2. Who does Pick meet at breakfast?

3. What did Pick do after he cleaned up in his hotel room?

4. What does Martha's teasing make Pick do?

5. Where did Banning leave his wife?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Ernie's mother feel about her's and Pick's best friend?

2. How does Zimmerman feel about his assignment and what knowledge does he have to help him with the assignment?

3. What kind of group does Carlson want to start and what are his ideas about rank for the group?

4. What does McCoy find out about his brother in Chapter XV and how does he feel about it?

5. What does McCoy do after he speaks with Carlson?

6. Who does Stecker find in the penthouse in Chapter XX and why is she there?

7. Where does Sergeant Zimmerman when Esposito sees him in Chapter XVI? What does Esposito ask Zimmerman about?

8. What do McCoy and Zimmerman do in sub-chapter two of Chapter XV?

9. What does Pickering want to do when he leaves the military and how has he prepared for that career?

10. In what situation did Pickering discover he loved Martha?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In any book centered around the military, leadership of the troops is often crucial with the better leaders able to command the respect and loyalty of their men. The men's willingness to follow a particularly leader can have a decisive impact upon the success of a mission. Discuss the following:

1. Whose command style seems most effective? Analyze the elements of those effective leaders thoroughly and discuss the traits of the good leaders. What makes an excellent leader/commander? Give examples.

2. Whose command style seems most ineffective? Analyze the elements of those ineffective leaders thoroughly and discuss the traits of the poor leaders. What makes a poor leader/commander? Give examples.

3. Is disobeying a poor leader ever justifiable? Explain using details from the text, other books you have read and your personal experience. In times of war, disobeying an order can be punishable by death. Is this harsh sentence justifiable for such an act? Why or why not.

Essay Topic 2

Griffin is masterful in his description of battles and life in general in for a soldier during the second world war. Discuss one of the following:

1. Trace and analyze Griffin's descriptive passages about life as a soldier. How does he use descriptions of the five senses to make the reader feel s/he is there? Do you find his descriptions compelling? Seemingly accurate? How would Corps 02: Call to Arms be different if Griffin did not include such descriptive passages?

2. Analyze Griffin's descriptive passages about the social structure of the times and discuss what you think it would be like to be a person of wealth and/or privilege such as Pickering, or Wesley. Contrast that to the lives of those who are in a lower social strata such as McCoy and Zimmerman or one in service to someone of wealth and/or privilege.

3. Describe and analyze Griffin's descriptive passages about the topographical setting and the physical descriptions of the people. Does Griffin do an adequate job of actually making the reader "see" the land or sea where the action is taking place? How about getting a visual image of the characters? How does the descriptions of the setting add to the novel? Do you like having an idea of how a character looks? How would the novel be different without such descriptions?

Essay Topic 3

Choose two of the following and compare and contrast the two people. Include in the discussion their type of leadership, their personality, their morals, and whether you would like to serve under them.

1. Carlson and Wesley.

2. Stecker and Pickering.

3. McCoy and Rickabee.

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