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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 Senator tell a group of people gathered for an anti-war rally?

2. What becomes of Snake as he carries Goodrich toward Hodges?

3. What does Snake's mother wonder as she looks at Ronnie's Boot Camp picture?

4. What does Hodges' seven year old son believe his father did?

5. Where does Sergeant Sadler expect the enemy to attack?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Snake go to the company office tent?

2. What is Bagger's reaction to Senator's insulting song about Hodges?

3. What does Hodges notice in his old classmate that he meets in the mess hall?

4. What does Hodges do when he is released from the Japanese hospital?

5. What is Hodges' reply when his classmate asks him if they can still win the war?

6. What is the reaction of Hodges' son when Mitsuko takes him to see his father's memorial?

7. What is Snake's mother doing two years after he is killed in Vietnam?

8. Why does a three star General arrive at Hodges' platoon?

9. What type of songs does Senator sing and play on his guitar after Hodges returns?

10. What does Snake do when he sees Senator in the hole?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Each of the characters presented in Hodges' unit had different reasons for enlisting in the Marines.

1) Summarize the reasons of at least four of the characters in the novel.

2) Compare the character's views when they enlisted to their attitudes toward the Marines once they are actually serving in Vietnam.

3) How does each of the characters lose their innocent view of their role in the war? Cite examples from the novel.

Essay Topic 2

1) Discuss how Goodrich grows as a character from the beginning of the novel to the end.

2) How do his attitudes change toward the Vietnam War?

3) How does his attitude about his classmates change?

4) What are the differences in his attitude toward war protesters from the beginning to the end of the novel?

Essay Topic 3

1) Analyze the image of the One Mile Killer Fields.

2) What do they symbolize?

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