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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/whom is Godfrey sent to find out about?

2. With whom does Godfrey talk about the rescue mission apart from Pluto?

3. Where does Hart stop to see his family on the way back to Washington D.C. and enter a bar?

4. What role does Godfrey have that reveals his surprising knowledge about the mission?

5. Who does Stecker want to visit that Galloway provides him with a jeep for?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Jack relieved at Guadalcanal?

2. What does Banning think of Ellen and of Pickering's security?

3. Why does Stecker go to Henderson with Galloway?

4. Why is Ellen upset with the men at the cottage?

5. What does the message at Ferdinand Six reveal?

6. Why is Fleming annoyed with Banning about the rescue mission?

7. How do Rickabee and Pickering differ on the rescue mission?

8. Why do Rickabee and Pickering oppose Dillon at the Office of Management Analysis?

9. What do Hart and his men do to begin Operation Pickle?

10. What is Moore's relationship with Joanne?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Pickering and McCoy are two of the most active characters in discussing their social and political beliefs.

Part 1) What is their relationship? How do they co-exist and how do they interact? What is similar about them and what is different?

Part 2) What are some events that Pickering had a direct influence upon? What are some events that McCoy had a direct influence upon?

Part 3) Which character offers support or sympathy to people that attempt to rebel against rules? Which one is stronger and why?

Essay Topic 2

In Line of Fire, Griffin's German society shows a conscious selectivity about technology. What do you think of the technology that McCoy uses? Which aspects do you find more or less appealing? How is technology associated with power and rebellion?

Essay Topic 3

Describe the role of family in Line of Fire. What does family mean for Pickering? What does family mean for McCoy? How are these definitions similar? Is family supportive and in what ways? How do these definitions compare to a traditional family in 20th century America on the west coast?

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