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This test consists of 5 short answer questions and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Captain Banning sent to see doctors?

2. Where does Ernie meet a young and pregnant woman?

3. To what rank is Zimmerman promoted?

4. Where is McCoy stationed at the beginning of Chapter XI?

5. What does the young pregnant woman need?

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

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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