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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 was the 5th Marine Division stationed in November 1943 according to "Chapter Five: Forging the Spearhead"?

2. How old was Jack Lucas when he received the Medal of Honor?

3. What was the name of the 5th Marine Division?

4. What did hundred of thousands of young Americans do after hearing Roosevelt's speech?

5. What type of Japanese troops took the first shots at the Marines?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was General Kuribayashi determined to cause during the Iwo Jima battle?

2. What did Bradley and his brothers find after their father died?

3. What did the Battle of Tarawa foreshadow?

4. What did Mike try to do during training for Rene in 1944?

5. What did the Allied forces know they needed to do after the attack on Pearl Harbor?

6. What did Kathryn, James's mother, always rely on according to "Chapter Two: All-American Boys"?

7. Where did James Bradley, the author, travel and why according to "Chapter One: Sacred Ground"?

8. What did American leaders not know about the Japanese soldiers on Iwo Jima before they landed on the island?

9. What did the Marines create in March 1944?

10. What was the Civilian Conservation Corps?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the significance of the Battle of Tawara.

Essay Topic 2

Analyze Bradley's use of foreshadowing and other literary techniques, such as the use of short sentences in Flags of Our Fathers.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the relationship between duty and patriotism.

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