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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. During Part 2, Chapter 8, what are most of the soldiers doing?
(a) Fighting the Japanese.
(b) Relaxing on the beach.
(c) Building a road.
(d) Reparing their tents.

2. During Gallagher's flashback, what organization does the reader learn he joined as a teenager?
(a) The Communist Party.
(b) The Young Republicans.
(c) Jehovah Witness.
(d) Christians United.

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

4. As Part 1, Chapter 2 opens, the men are getting ready to advance on the island. What solider does Croft feel will be killed upon landing on Anopopei?
(a) Hennessey.
(b) Martinez.
(c) Stanley.
(d) Wilson.

5. How does Brown's feelings about women affect Stanley?
(a) He feels more in love with his wife.
(b) He feels they are only good for sex.
(c) He feels undeserving of his wife.
(d) He feels his wife may cheat on him.

Short Answer Questions

1. The men were taking a break and relaxing on the beach, as the men are talking, Croft becomes angry and fires a shot into the woods, what happens next that creates fear and panic?

2. As the weather turns for the worse and the tents are being blown away, what is the general mood of the men?

3. How does Minetta think the injured are treated?

4. In Part 2, Chapter 5, as Roth thinks about his wife, what can the reader guess about her feelings toward him?

5. What subject did Roth study in college?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Goldstein's reasoning for the tents not staying up and how does he solve this problem?

2. How does Minetta's plan to be moved to the mental ward backfire?

3. As the men continue to build the road, what thoughts begin to cross their minds and why?

4. Why had Red gone to the medical tent and what was the result of the visit?

5. Why does Hearn think that a relationship with Croft will be difficult?

6. How does the narrator describe the quietness of the jungle?

7. In Part 1, Chapter 2, why is Martinez compared to a deer?

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

9. What is Cummings solution to bring the men back in line and give one example of this?

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

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