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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Major Dalleson's assistant?
(a) Wakara.
(b) Wilson.
(c) Red.
(d) Leach.

2. In Part 2, Chapter 3, what does Hearn feel guilty over?
(a) Fighting with others.
(b) Being born in a poor family.
(c) Having dry clothes.
(d) Being an officer.

3. Who does Stanley begin to lose respect for after his promotion?
(a) Polack.
(b) Brown.
(c) Croft.
(d) Wilson.

4. In Part 2, Chapter 1, the men are now on the island, who is the commanding officer on the island?
(a) Stanley.
(b) Cummings.
(c) Croft.
(d) Red.

5. Where do the men gather to keep dry during the storm?
(a) In the mess hall.
(b) Between the trucks.
(c) In their tents.
(d) Under trees.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the General's worst fear about the island?

2. What is the relationship between Cummings and Hearn like?

3. What does Stanley hope to gain by befriending Brown?

4. Why is Cummings upset about when reviewing the air operations reports?

5. What subject did Roth study in college?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Cummings use of the destroyer unnecessary?

2. Why does Hearn dislike Conn, Hobart, and Dalleson?

3. Why does Red reject Hearn's offer to be promoted to corporal?

4. Why were the soldiers in so much shock when Hearn is shot?

5. Describe Croft's recurring nightmare.

6. What are Hearn's feeling as he thinks about the platoon, Cummings, and Croft?

7. How did Stanley get money before the war and what are the other men's reaction to this method?

8. How is Wilson described in chapter 1?

9. What is Hearn's punishment, so to speak, for questioning Cummings's division of the food?

10. What does Mailer accomplish in the first chapter in terms of mood and characters?

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