Going After Cacciato Test | Final Test - Hard

Tim O'Brien
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 129 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Going After Cacciato Test | Final Test - Hard

Tim O'Brien
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 129 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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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. Who eventually gets Buff's helmet in Chapter 41?

2. Which member of Third Squad jumps off the ship and disappears at the end of Chapter 38?

3. What time is it at the end of Chapter 42?

4. According to Paul Berlin in Chapter 37, where are most booby traps located?

5. What action does each man in Third Squad perform to signify his agreement in killing Sidney Martin?

Short Essay Questions

1. What public event does Third Squad witness in Chapter 29?

2. Describe Sarkin Aung Wan and Paul Berlin's debate in Chapter 44.

3. What lesson does Oscar Johnson declare should be learned from Buff's death?

4. What news does Captain Rhallon bring Third Squad at the end of Chapter 33?

5. What does Paul Berlin rationalize is the essential purpose of the Vietnam War at the end of Chapter 40?

6. How does Third Squad escape execution in Chapter 36?

7. How does Third Squad manage to depart the ocean liner at the beginning of Chapter 40?

8. How does Third Squad determine happens to Buff's big gun?

9. Why does Doc Peret have to admit to the Cacciato chase in Chapter 33?

10. Why does Stink Harris jump off the ship at the end of Chapter 38?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Going After Cacciato, as a novel, is the dueling of two narratives. One, the story of Cacciato's flight to Paris, is beautiful, meaningful, and false. The other, the story of Sidney Martin's murder, is nihilistic, sad, and sadly factual. It is a war story that cannot be told. Write an essay about the dynamic of between these two stories. Why does one necessitate the creation of the other? Why is the latter entirely unsatisfactory as a story? Does it have any substantive lesson to teach?

Essay Topic 2

There are two Paul Berlins in Going After Cacciato: the weak-willed bad soldier of the real chapters, and the one that presses onward and gets the girl in the Cacciato story. Write an essay comparing these two. How does the protagonist of the novel reinvent himself in half the chapters? How does this reinvention help him deal with his desperate shortcomings in the other half of the novel? TO what extent is the second Paul Berlin a defense for the first?

Essay Topic 3

The narrative of the novel begins with the announcement that Cacciato, the simpleton, has set off into the jungle to walk to Paris. Although the men of Third Squad are annoyed, they do not question the impetus that drove Cacciato. Write an essay on Paris as a symbol in Going After Cacciato. Why does the idea of walking to Paris appeal to all of the men in the Squad? What does Paris represent to each of them, and what doe they find themselves doing once they arrive?

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