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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 does Raymond reveal?

2. Senator John Iselin sneaks into a regularly scheduled press conference given by the Secretary of Defense, and very loudly proclaims what?

3. What is the cover story for Raymond's visit?

4. What does Raymond's mother do for Iselin?

5. What does this proclamation do to Iselin?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. When and how does Raymond first meet Jocelyn?

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

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

5. What will Raymond Shaw be receiving?

6. How does Rosie want to help Marco?

7. What does Raymond tell his mother about Marco? How does she react?

8. What is learned about Eleanor in this flashback? How does Raymond feel about this?

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

10. Why is Raymond taken to this sanitarium?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Another theme has to do with the love of a good woman.

Part 1) Who are the women in this story? How are they significant?

Part 2) How do these women influence their men? Why are they so influential?

Part 3) Why does the author use this as a theme? Use the text as support.

Essay Topic 2

Josie's husband has died.

Part 1) How might he have died? How do you know this?

Part 2) What purpose does his death serve for the characters in the story?

Part 3) What is the connection between his death and the theme about the love of a good woman?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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