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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 were the Japanese building at Guadalcanal?

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

3. How was the Marine Ira saw when he landed on Iwo Jima killed?

4. What did the Japanese consider Iwo Jima to be?

5. What sport was Belle Block against her son playing?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What did the bulldozers on Iwo Jima do, and what was Bradley ordered to do?

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

4. What did Franklin do when he got word he was drafted?

5. What happened to Lucas on the second day in Iwo Jima?

6. What was ironic about Company E according to "Chapter Five: Forging the Spearhead"?

7. What did the Battle of Tarawa foreshadow?

8. What did Bradley always wonder?

9. What did the armada heading for Iwo Jima consist of according to "Chapter Six: Armada"?

10. What did the Marines create in March 1944?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Examine why Pearl Harbor was known as the "day that will live in infamy," and the meaning of this statement.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss how James Bradley uses characterization to demonstrate the tension between boyhood and manhood.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss how the men who survive can also be considered casualties of war.

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