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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 does David's grandmother compare talking about the past to?
2. Who does David find out has died while he was in Egypt?
3. Upon returning to his base after the funeral, what illness does David come down with?
4. What did David's grandmother hear David yelling into a mirror when he was a child?
5. What is the name of the male nurse that meets David to inform him about his father's condition?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why is David shocked by the one and only letter his father sends him?
2. What is the only way that David knows how to deal with his father's death?
3. Patsy gives David a lot of trouble about not going out with her in Chapter 6 entitled "Regroup." How does David justify to Patsy not going out and doing anything fun?
4. How does David's father "tell" him where the badge is?
5. How did David deal with his Mother's abuse as a child?
6. Why is David so upset about his father being in the hospital?
7. David has the chance to leave for basic training in either one day or the following week. Why does David choose to leave in a week for basic training?
8. How does David impress the Air Force sergeant assigned to his enlistment paperwork?
9. While looking around his mother's bedroom, what is he surprised to find after seven years?
10. Why does David's mother refuse to go see her husband in the hospital?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Why do you believe David never gives up? There are very specific details in the novel as to why David continues to succeed. Choose one of the textual details and address why that detail allowed David to become the man he has.
Essay Topic 2
Describe David's relationship with Patsy. Why does David begin the relationship with Patsy? How does their relationship progress? Is the relationship good for David? For Patsy? Do you believe that the relationship was doomed from the beginning? Why?
Essay Topic 3
When talking to David about his past abuse, Patsy did not believe him. Discuss why you think Patsy did not believe that David was abused. What about David's personality makes it hard for her to believe that he was abused? Does David possess any signs of being an abused child? If so, why does Patsy fail to recognize these signs?
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