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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. Where is Ken McCoy stationed on January 1, 1941?

2. What kind of car does McCoy want to buy at the used car lot?

3. What does Banning want McCoy to photograph for them?

4. What does McCoy avoid paying to the used car dealer?

5. Who arrives in McCoy's room angry that he had spent a night in a brothel and demanding attention?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do McCoy and Zimmerman separate to eat at different restaurants?

2. What happens when Ellen visits McCoy in his room?

3. When Macklin, Sessions, and Feller are imprisoned, why does McCoy feel that he is in trouble?

4. Describe how Banning meets McCoy initially to be his defense attorney and what Banning suggests to McCoy for his defense.

5. Why does McCoy fail to take Sessions with him in Weifang?

6. How is Ellen described in Chapter 4?

7. How does McCoy obtain information for Banning, and why does Macklin find it questionable?

8. Why does McCoy avoid going to Yenchi-eng?

9. Why is McCoy upset about being sent back to the United States?

10. What becomes obvious to Banning when Chatwick produces two coolies to testify on McCoy's behalf?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Banning and McCoy are two of the most active characters in discussing their social and political beliefs and in the decision-making process for the military and espionage events that unfold in the book.

Part 1) What is their relationship? How do they co-exist and how do they interact? What is similar about them and what is different?

Part 2) What are some events that Banning had a direct influence upon? What are some events that McCoy had a direct influence upon?

Part 3) Which character offers support or sympathy to people that attempt to jump the Wall? Which one is stronger and why?

Essay Topic 2

Love and sexuality between different characters is a recurring theme in The Corps: Book 1 Semper Fi. How does McCoy's feelings about love change from the beginning of the novel to its end? In what ways has he expanded his awareness and beliefs? Is sexuality connected to love for McCoy? How does his feelings develop for Ernie and change, and how does his relationship with her contrast with that of other women that he has had romantic feelings for?

Essay Topic 3

Griffin discusses both patriotism and war vividly in The Corps: Book 1 Semper Fi. Find some examples in the book and discuss the effect of these topics on the character of Pickering.

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