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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 Banning decide to do if he has to leave the Corps?

2. How does McCoy feel about taking the assignment from Wesley?

3. What did McCoy tell Ernie when he called her in Chapter VI?

4. What has just occurred in the life of the woman Pick meets at breakfast?

5. What problem does Colonel Wesley want to solve?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Mrs. Pickering's response to Ernie's phone call?

2. How does Ernie's mother feel about her's and Pick's best friend?

3. What does Colonel Carlson tell his raiders about their training and where are they going next?

4. What does McCoy find out about his brother in Chapter XV and how does he feel about it?

5. To what job has Zimmerman and Kozonwski been assigned in Chapter I?

6. In Chapter IX, what does Colonel Harris ask Jack Stecker about Carlson?

7. How does Carlson introduce McCoy to the Separate Battalion and what does he tell them?

8. What does Lieutenant Plumley tell Thomas McCoy about what Zimmerman said to him?

9. What does Ernie do when she sees Martha at the restaurant?

10. Why has Pick volunteered for flight training?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Most of the entire series of novels concerning McCoy takes place during the Second World War. Therefore understanding the political and social situation during that time helps to a greater understanding and appreciation of this book and others in the series. Discuss one of the following:

1. Research and write an expository essay about how the second world war begins and ends.

2. Research and write an expository essay about the battles that take place on land between America and the Japanese in World War II.

3. Compare/Contrast the importance of the British infantry during the second world war to the importance of the American infantry during either WWI.

4. Write an expository essay on how World War II affects the social culture of one of the following countries: Britian, France, America, or Germany.

Essay Topic 2

Major Banning has gotten his eyesight back and a clean bill of health from the doctors, all that's missing for him is his wife; but he does find some comfort with the librarian and the New York City Library.

1. In most circles, Banning's involvement with the librarian would be called adultery. Do you think the life and death situation of war makes adultery more likely? Why or why not? Use examples from your own knowledge and or the book to illustrate your answer.

2. Banning is an officer and a "gentleman" who has just received another promotion to major. Discuss how the act of adultery fits with the idea of an officer and a "gentleman?"

3. Banning is an intelligence officer and as such would most likely have a top secret security clearance. In the modern army personnel who commit adultery will often lose their clearance. Why do you think this is so? Do you think someone's morals should affect whether they have a security clearance? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

Choose two of the following and compare and contrast the two people. Include in the discussion their type of leadership, their personality, their morals, and whether you would like to serve under them.

1. Carlson and Wesley.

2. Stecker and Pickering.

3. McCoy and Rickabee.

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