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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. During World War II, about how many Navajo Marines were there other than code talkers?
2. How many code talkers were recommended for every signal company in Chapter 19?
3. What size was Saipan?
4. What did Ned always carry with him and used when he greeted the dawn?
5. How many men from Ned's class of code talkers were chosen to be new instructors?
Short Essay Questions
1. What happened to the Japanese women and children on Saipan when the Marines invaded and why?
2. What advice did George Kirk give Ned and why?
3. Why was Hawaii very different for Ned?
4. What wass the geography like on Bougainville?
5. How did Ned try to avoid taking Atabrine, and how did the watch officer get him and the other Navajos to take it?
6. What was the warrior's code for the Japanese?
7. What was security like for the code?
8. What did it take to secure Guadalcanal?
9. What ideas did the Japanese have about war and how did they treat prisoners of war?
10. What happened the first time that Bill McCabe and Sam Begay used Navajo code?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
The code talkers were trained in secrecy. Why were the code talkers trained in secrecy? Why did they have to keep the code in their head? Why was the code not written down and carried into battle?
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
In boarding school, Ned and other children were punished for speaking their native language. How were the children supposed to forget their language, their culture, and everything about being Indian? Were they subjected to cultural genocide?
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