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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 is the most frightening mission for the soldiers?

2. Which of the following is the best definition for bellicose?

3. What is the name of the base camp fro Alpha Company?

4. What does O'Brien learn about his military future at the beginning of chapter six?

5. What do the soldiers decide to do when they discover a tunnel in a village rather than sending a soldier down?

Short Essay Questions

1. What provides O'Brien with his only intellectual connection?

2. To whom does O'Brien write as he continues his plan to desert to Sweden?

3. Why do the Vietnamese people go everywhere the men of Alpha Company go?

4. Describe O'Brien's childhood and adolescence.

5. Why does the smoke from Tri Binh 4 trouble O'Brien?

6. What is O'Brien's moral dilemma?

7. Why does the Chaplain disappoint O'Brien?

8. After he starts his interest in politics, what does O'Brien begin to do?

9. How does O'Brien see himself during basic training?

10. What causes fear and paranoia in the soldiers?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay describing which event in the story struck you as being the most horrible and why. How does this event compare to any event in your own life which you had previously considered horrible? Describe how levels of horror may change throughout one's life.

Essay Topic 2

Choose two characters from the novel and write a comparative essay about these two characters using information from the novel as the basis for your comparison. At the end of your comparison, choose one of the characters which you feel you are most like and why you believe that is the case.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay explaining why O'Brien continued his friendship with Erik throughout his tour. Then add a portion explaining why or why not you believe this friendship would continue. Do you think O'Brien would want to be your friend? Why or why not?

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