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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 American patrol is quickly conditioned to believe?

2. What does Jocelyn do when Raymond has been bitten by a snake?

3. What has Shaw's mother, the wife of influential senator Johnny Iselin, arranged?

4. Why does Raymond like his boss?

5. Early the next morning, what interrupts Shaw and the young newspaperwoman in the act of sex?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the sanitarium.

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

3. Why does Shaw end up in Washington early?

4. How does the chapter begin?

5. How does Rosie want to help Marco?

6. What will Raymond Shaw be receiving?

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

8. What does Raymond think about his boss?

9. What happens between Marco and Shaw, regarding Marco's fight with Chunjin?

10. What is known about Shaw from the beginning of this flashback?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Rosie is Marco's girlfriend.

Part 1) How do they meet? How does he act in front of her? How does she react? Why?

Part 2) Can Rosie be trusted? Why or why not?

Part 3) How is this relationship connected to the theme of the love of a good woman?

Essay Topic 2

A wide range of emotions are expressed in this story.

Part 1) Give four examples of emotions and when they are expressed.

Part 2) What is the purpose of this spectrum of emotions?

Part 3) How do these emotions reflect the feelings of those living at this time in history? How might it affect readers differently today? Why?

Essay Topic 3

Shaw is being investigated.

Part 1) Why is he investigated? Who investigates him? How does Shaw feel about this investigation? Why?

Part 2) How does this investigation affect his life? How does it affect the Communists who have programmed him? Why?

Part 3) How does this investigation help or hurt Shaw? Why?

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