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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 long after the original Navajo men were enlisted in the Marines did two Navajo men come as instructors for the next group of Navajo recruits?

2. What siblings are born when Ned is in boarding school?

3. When did the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor?

4. Who takes Ned to the boarding school?

5. After the Long Walk, how many winters were the Navajo kept prisoners?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Ned say goodbye to his great-grandfather?

2. What clothes are the Navajo children given when they come to the boarding school?

3. Where did the idea of using Navajo for a code for battlefield messages come from?

4. What does Ned's mother look like when he goes to boarding school for the first time?

5. How does Ned get into high school, and what good things are there about high school?

6. Who is Jacob Benally?

7. How does Ned's uncle retell the history about the Navajo and the Mexicans?

8. Why did Navajos have a better chance of getting through boot camp than most white men?

9. What did Ned tell the recruiter when he went to enlist?

10. What was the only condition that Ned's parents had when he asked to be able to enlist in Chapter 9?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Genre is a means of classifying literature. What is the genre of the novel? Why is it not realistic fiction?

Essay Topic 2

Artistic license is the way that an author creates, art, music, or writing based upon his interpretation of life. How does the author use artistic license to make the novel seem like Ned was a code talker and the things he experienced really happened?

Essay Topic 3

Ned and other code talkers were proud of their role. Why were Ned and other code talkers proud of their role? What did their satisfaction with their role reveal about the differences between pride and self-importance?

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