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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. Where did John attend flight school?

2. How many children did Carol and John have?

3. What trouble did John get into in Spain?

4. After John ejected from his plane, what we he even more determined to do?

5. What did the Americans who were released in August tell the world?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did John do while he was in Army training?

2. What was John's punishment in Calcutta?

3. What injuries did John receive from the inferno on the USS Forestall? How were his injuries compared to the others?

4. What did John and his friends do for entertainment in Meridian, Mississippi? How did people react to what they had done?

5. How did John's father and grandfather talk about their war experiences after they were home?

6. How did John feel after the wash rag incident, and what did he do about it?

7. What were communications like between John and his family?

8. What happened on Christmas Eve in 1968?

9. What was John' s behavior like when he was a naval officer at the Academy? How did he act in relation to his work?

10. What were some of the difficulties John had to face as a prisoner of war?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How did Jack feel about his son and his son's captivity? How did the situation affect his role as a commander?

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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