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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. Who takes Stecker and Pick for their first flight?

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

3. What does the man in question #82 ask Pick and Stecker?

4. Where do Pick and Stecker go after their first flight?

5. Why has Pick volunteered for flight training?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Pick and Stecker do after Carstairs tells them McCoy was wounded and he has given up on Martha?

2. Why has Pick volunteered for flight training?

3. What does the navy psychiatrist tell Banning?

4. Who tells Banning his new assignment and what is it?

5. What does McCoy do after he speaks with Carlson?

6. Why does Ernie call Pick's mother in San Diego?

7. Why is Colonel Wesley and others concerned about Carlson's idea?

8. What did Ernie tell her father about her feelings towards McCoy?

9. How does Zimmerman feel about his assignment and what knowledge does he have to help him with the assignment?

10. What do McCoy and Zimmerman do in sub-chapter two of Chapter XV?

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

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.

Essay Topic 3

Lieutenant McCoy is what they call a mustang, an enlisted man who came up to be an officer. The other officers do not like this. They want the officer to be college graduates. That is one of the problems they have with Colonel Carlson and probably one of the reasons McCoy likes him. Carlson does not want any distinguishing of rank between his Raiders. He does not think that it is good for them to see the officers sleeping in cots while they sleep on the ground or eating better.

1. How do you think Colonel Carlson's ideas about rank might affect discipline? Use examples from Call to Arms to support your answer.

2. Other officers resenting those who did not go to college is not uncommon in other institutions. There are many situations in which a person is qualified to do a job without formal education and those with formal education might resent that person. Discuss what you believe are the interpersonal and personality dynamics of this type of situation. Use examples to support your answer.

3. Throughout history, as long as there has been rank in the military or classes in the social sphere treatment of people have been unequal. Officers have always had better quarters and food. Kings sleep in better homes than carpenters. Do you think inequality of people is good or bad? Could it motivate those in the lower hierarchies to work harder or just make them resentful? Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of unequal status among humans.

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