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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 does Kate use her sexuality in the book?

2. What were Washington's orders for the General on the morning of the hijacking?

3. Who does Artkin shoot as he falls down?

4. Where is the General's real location as he narrates?

5. How long does Ben have to stay stationed?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Miro get away from the ambush?

2. Why does Miro decide to kill Kate?

3. Why isn't Kate killed during or after her escape attempt?

4. What does Kate underestimate about Miro?

5. Why is Raymond forced to take more candy?

6. Why isn't Miro blamed for his inability to control Kate?

7. What is shocking about the end of the novel?

8. When the assault happens, what does Miro do?

9. Why has Ben felt so much guilt over the past few years?

10. To the reader, what does it seem like the General has chosen?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What qualities do Artkin and Miro share with one another? Are they typical father and son similarities

How has Artkin trained Miro to become a terrorist and how does Miro fight the urge to become a terrorist?

Essay Topic 2

Ben yearns for love but is unable to find it with Nettie.

Is this because he is not ready to love? Or has he not had enough life experiences to find this type of love.

Essay Topic 3

What American rites of passage are present or mentioned in this novel?

What characters are forced to go through these?

How might these rites of passage differ from ones that Miro was forced to live through.

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