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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. How does Shaw's mother position herself and her husband, when Shaw is presented the Medal of Honor?

2. Why does Raymond suggest that Marco force an investigation by initiating his own court-martial and charging himself with falsifying the report that led to Shaw's medal?

3. Where does Raymond have lunch with his mother?

4. How old is Raymond when he meets Jocelyn Jordan?

5. Why does the doctor say Raymond would be the perfect assassin?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the sanitarium.

2. Why do others not like Iselin?

3. How does Raymond end up taking a trip to Europe with his mother?

4. What does this next flashback reveal about Shaw's mother?

5. What does Raymond do when O'Neil insists on throwing a welcome dinner for the Medal of Honor veteran?

6. What does Lieutenant General Nils Jorgenson do when Iselin brings Marco's plan to his attention?

7. Why is Raymond taken to this sanitarium?

8. How do Marco and Chunjin get into a fight?

9. What will Raymond Shaw be receiving?

10. What happens to the American soldiers during this mission?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

These two themes are connected. What is the correlation between this theme and the theme of man as machine?

Part 1) What are the two central themes? How are they thematic?

Part 2) How are these two themes connected?

Part 3) What is the purpose of the connection?

Essay Topic 2

There is a great deal of tension in this story.

Part 1) Describe the cause of this tension.

Part 2) How does this tension affect the characters in the story, as well as the reader?

Part 3) How might this story and tension reflect the lives of Americans at this time?

Essay Topic 3

Shaw's mother is a dominating character.

Part 1) How is she a dominating character? Why is she so controlling? How does she affect the lives of those around her?

Part 2) When does she lose some of this control? Why? What does this reveal about her?

Part 3) How does her personality play into the hands of the Communists?

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