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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. How does Richie feel about seeing his fellow soldier die during their first patrol?

2. What type of home remedy does Peewee purchase from a local healer?

3. In what neighborhood did Richie grow up?

4. Who does Peewee talk to in a storage shed?

5. When Peewee is joking that he didn't know he was in Vietnam, where does he joke that he thinks he is?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Lieutenant Carroll die?

2. What footage do the soldiers watch after the ambush, and what is their reaction?

3. Why is Richie sent on patrol with the Charlie Company?

4. How do the soldiers pass the time around the barracks when they have no missions to attend to?

5. Why do the American troops ambush the village that they had recently pacified?

6. What question does the film crew ask to the soldiers, and what are their responses?

7. During the slow days, what does Richie learn about his fellow soldiers Brew, Lobel, and Monaco?

8. Why does Lobel feel that he is responsible for Lieutenant Carroll's death, and how does Richie console him?

9. How does RIchie cope with the trauma that he witnesses while on patrol with the Charlie Company?

10. Where did the term "Angel Warriors" come from?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

"Fallen Angel" has sometimes been called an antiwar novel. Do you agree with this assessment? Why or why not. Discuss the ways that the novel acts as an antiwar novel and the ways that it acts as a pro-war novel.

Essay Topic 2

In the beginning of the novel, Rings makes a bizarre offer to RIchie and Peewee in order to cement their brotherhood.

Part 1) Describe the offer that RIngs presented and his reasoning behind it.

Part 2) Explain the ritual that Peewee and Richie partook in to cement their own brotherhood.

Part 3) Explain the way that Peewee and RIchie's ritual stuck with them throughout their time in war, and what it meant to them.

Essay Topic 3

Richie struggles, through much of the novel, to differentiate the difference between the "good guys" and the "bad guys" in war. Explain Richie's though process and how its changed over his time in Vietnam. Then briefly explain how the novel presents the idea of what is "good" and "bad" about war.

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