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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. How large was the net that Marlantes' grandfather used to fish with?
2. How many years after the therapy-group experience, did Marlantes have dinner with Joseph Campbell?
3. During a dinner party in Singapore, what was a Chinese woman whom Marlantes noticed wearing?
4. Where did Marlantes participate in a white-heat atrocity?
5. When did Marlantes first write a recurring nightmare in his journal?
Short Essay Questions
1. Whose death did Marlantes particularly remember?
2. What did Marlantes say about his spiritual condition in 1968?
3. When Zoomer was struggling to breathe, what incident did Marlantes remember from his youth?
4. How did Marlantes try to deal with the darkness and dark deeds that he carried inside after Vietnam?
5. What inattention to detail in 1968 made Marlantes feel guilty?
6. What did Marlantes lose after Vietnam and why?
7. What response would people who actually fought and won battles have?
8. Why was the 1970s therapy group that Marlantes attended a damaging experience?
9. Why did Marlantes say that war is the antithesis of a fundamental rule of moral conduct?
10. In 1968 when Marlantes was in charge of an undermanned platoon, how did he and his men guide a helicopter team in to rescue the wounded?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
In Chapter Ten, Marlantes discussed the "Club" of combat veterans. Discuss the Club, its purpose, and its positive and negative aspects.
Essay Topic 2
In Chapter Seven, Marlantes mentioned a term President Johnson used in a speech to describe people who complained without facing any hard choices. Discuss "cocktail critics" and how this term affected Marlantes' life.
Essay Topic 3
In Chapter Five, Marlantes discussed the enemy within a person. Discuss the enemy within.
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