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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. What does Richie think that his time in the hospital has done to him?

2. What do the American soldiers remove from the dead soldiers to keep the enemy from identifying them?

3. In Earlene's letter to Richie, what does she apologize for?

4. What is waiting for Richie when he enters one of the huts in the recently pacified village?

5. Why doesn't the grenade that Richie throws into the Vietnamese hut explode?

Short Essay Questions

1. When does Richie realize that Johnson would have been a natural-born leader?

2. What happens during the Lieutenant Gearhart's first reconnaissance mission in Vietnam?

3. What power struggle arises between Johnson and Stewart in the battlefield of the reclaimed hill?

4. What offer does Gearhart make for the troops, when it is realized that the squads are unequally staffed?

5. How do the American soldiers prepare the bodies of their fallen soldiers so that the enemy cannot mutilate them?

6. What letter does Gearhart give to Richie and Walowick to hold onto?

7. What conversation does Richie get into with Johnson about the war protesters?

8. What does Richie do with his Purple Heart?

9. What happens when the allies bring in a Vietnamese mother and her two small children found wandering around the rice paddies?

10. How does Richie kill his first Vietcong soldier, and what is his reaction to the killing?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

War movies are a major theme throughout the novel.

Part 1) Explain the relationship that Lobel has with Hollywood and describe the way that it affects his fighting.

Part 2) Describe the ways that war movies romanticize soldiers.

Part 3) Describe the way that "Fallen Angels' dispels the myths of war romanticism

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

"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.

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