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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 songs were sung during a ceremonial dance in Chapter 12?
2. What was the name of Ned's sixth grade teacher who said he would never go anywhere and would only ever herd sheep?
3. When did Ned's training end?
4. How many months did Ned spend on Bougainville?
5. How many inches long were the bayonets the rifles Ned and other carried in Chapter 12?
Short Essay Questions
1. How did the Marines in the Pacific get things?
2. What did the Navajo believe about corpses, and how did they deal with that in combat?
3. What was Operation Cartwheel?
4. How were Ned and the others allowed to speak their language at Camp Elliott and how did it make them feel?
5. What advice did George Kirk give Ned and why?
6. In Chapter 22, why was Ned sent to Hawaii?
7. What did it take to secure Guadalcanal?
8. How did Ned try to avoid taking Atabrine, and how did the watch officer get him and the other Navajos to take it?
9. What happened the first time that Bill McCabe and Sam Begay used Navajo code?
10. What did Ned see from the ship when the shelling began on Bougainville?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
The Navajo language was used to create a code during World War II? Why was the Navajo language used to create a code? Why were the code talkers so important when fighting the Japanese?
Essay Topic 3
In the Marines, Ned learned important things about whites and Indians. What important things did Ned learn about whites and Indians in the Marines? Why did he realize that white men were not superior to Indians?
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