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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 the regiment purify themselves of by killing Dillinger?

2. What did Dubois talk about the need for in raising children?

3. What are more common than floggings?

4. Who does Rico go with on his first visit to Vancouver?

5. What color hair does Rico's date have?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the Bugs.

2. What does Rico think about during the night?

3. What does Rico overhear Zim and Hendrick saying?

4. In what ways does the drop go wrong in Chapter 10?

5. What does Rico realize about his new life when he visits Vancouver?

6. Why does the army want to punish Dillinger?

7. What are Rasczak's and Jelal's roles aboard the Rodger Young?

8. Describe Rico's meeting with Carmencita.

9. Why are the recruits more shocked at a flogging than seeing death?

10. Why has no one committed a 9080 in Zim's training before?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why does the flogging have such an adverse affect on the other soldiers? Do the students think the flogging was as much to prove a point to everybody as it was to punish Hendrick? Do you think that Hendrick's conduct deserved such a punishment? Why did they not just throw him out of the army?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss Heinlein's life. In what way do you think his life and personality is reflected in the book?

Essay Topic 3

In 1998 Starship Troopers was made into a film directed by Paul Verhoeven. How different is the film from the book? Why do you think Verhoeven changed the ideas from the book so much? Could he have successfully made a film that was more directly like the book?

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