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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. Strategies from which wars are included in this book?

2. What happened when John McCain was five?

3. What job did John McCain's grandfather have?

4. What was the USS Gunnel supposed to do after its mission?

5. How did John Sidney McCain Jr. feel about the Navy?

Short Essay Questions

1. What were some of Jack's inventions and innovations?

2. How did the Japanese attack of Pearl Harbor affect John McCain?

3. What kind of fighter was Slew?

4. What kind of personality did John have as he was attending school?

5. What was the Academy like in the summer before classes began?

6. How did the student who bullied John die later in their lives? How did John relate to him at his death?

7. How did Captain Hart try to earn respect from others? Did it work?

8. What happened when John Sidney McCain Sr was 61 years old?

9. Describe John's education before he went to the Academy.

10. How did Slew take care of his grandson?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How did John feel about education? Write about his schooling and highlight his strong areas as well as his weak areas.

Essay Topic 2

Describe the conditions John lived in at The Plantation. What was his daily schedule like? What was isolation like? How did he keep sane?

Essay Topic 3

Describe Slew physically, mentally, and as a leader. How did he feel about war, and what did he do that made him so great in history?

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