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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 Cummings feel is the nature of a woman?
2. How many letters does the dead soldier Hennessey receive?
3. Croft has a flashback and the reader learns that he joined a different branch of the military before joining the Army. What was the first branch Croft joined?
4. What profession does the reader learn Hearn wanted to enter into after graduation?
5. Goldstein thinks about opening a business with his wife. What type of business does he want to open?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why were the soldiers in so much shock when Hearn is shot?
2. What does Cummings write about in his secret journal?
3. What does Mailer accomplish in the first chapter in terms of mood and characters?
4. During Part 2, Chapter 7, what does Martinez do in the souvenir hut?
5. In the opening scene, some of the men are playing cards. How does this card game reveal pieces of the men's personalities?
6. In Part 1, Chapter 2, why is Martinez compared to a deer?
7. How does the narrator describe the quietness of the jungle?
8. Why does Cummings begin to lose control of the men and what were his feeling about this?
9. What do the American troops learn about the Japanese troops after the campaign was over?
10. Describe Croft's recurring nightmare.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
This book takes place on a fictional island.
1) Were the events in the book indicative of actual historical events? Explain your answer.
2) Are there any recorded battles that took place on a similar island? .
Essay Topic 2
Roth and Goldstein have a substantial conversation on the beach, and Roth feels they are becoming friends. Would these two characters be friends if they had met outside of the Army? Explain your reasoning with evidence using the characters background, education, personality, and thoughts reveled throughout the book.
Essay Topic 3
Throughout the book, the reader is shown glimpses of the men's lives back home. How does the author use the literary tool of flashback throughout the novel? Is the presence of flashback used effectively, and what does it provide for the reader?"
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