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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 did McCoy do the day after he met Ernie?

2. What does Colonel Wesley think Carlson might want to do?

3. In what capacity did Banning work for the Marines?

4. Where did Ernie and McCoy meet after he called her in Chapter VI?

5. With what weapon did McCoy kill two Italian Marines?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Zimmerman do about what Esposito tells him?

2. In Chapter I, from where is McCoy flying, what is wrong with him and what does he allow the pilot to do?

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

4. Where does Zimmerman and Koznowski run into McCoy and Ernie and what story do they tell?

5. In what situation did Pickering discover he loved Martha?

6. What do Pick and his new friend at flight school decide to do in response to their situation there?

7. What does Carlson say to the recruits about McCoy teaching them?

8. What is wrong with Captain Banning when he is on the Pickerel and how does he feel about it? What does he plan to do?

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

10. What is Banning and Stecker talking about on Ernie and McCoy's boat and what does Banning tell McCoy about it?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Griffin has tried as much as possible to use historical events and facts around which to weave his work of fiction. Discuss the following:

1. Do you think this book qualifies as an historical fiction? Why or why not?

2. If much of the events in the book are historical, what surprises you about the way the events play out?

3. Do you think the culture of that era is more or less advanced than you imagined? Explain.

Essay Topic 2

Griffin is masterful in his description of battles and life in general in for a soldier during the second world war. Discuss one of the following:

1. Trace and analyze Griffin's descriptive passages about life as a soldier. How does he use descriptions of the five senses to make the reader feel s/he is there? Do you find his descriptions compelling? Seemingly accurate? How would Corps 02: Call to Arms be different if Griffin did not include such descriptive passages?

2. Analyze Griffin's descriptive passages about the social structure of the times and discuss what you think it would be like to be a person of wealth and/or privilege such as Pickering, or Wesley. Contrast that to the lives of those who are in a lower social strata such as McCoy and Zimmerman or one in service to someone of wealth and/or privilege.

3. Describe and analyze Griffin's descriptive passages about the topographical setting and the physical descriptions of the people. Does Griffin do an adequate job of actually making the reader "see" the land or sea where the action is taking place? How about getting a visual image of the characters? How does the descriptions of the setting add to the novel? Do you like having an idea of how a character looks? How would the novel be different without such descriptions?

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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