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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 the acronym FRAGO represent?

2. On what deployment of the narrator's does Rachel get married in "Bodies"?

3. Whom does the narrator describe covered in blood in "Redeployment"?

4. What does the acronym PPE in "OIF" represent?

5. Who is ordered by Doc to tend to Sweet's wound in "FRAGO"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do the Marines do after entering the basement in “FRAGO”?

2. What internal conflict plagues Timhead in “After Action Report”?

3. How would you describe the language style of “OIF”? Why do you think the author employs this style?

4. Who is the narrator of “Bodies”? How does this narrator describe his feelings about the war in the story?

5. How does the narrator describe his trip to a local mall in “Redeployment”?

6. What is symbolized by the death of the Iraqi boy in “After Action Report”?

7. Whose memorial is described in “After Action Report”? How is the memorial described?

8. Who is Rachel, and what role does she play in the story “Bodies”?

9. What is discovered in the basement in “FRAGO”? How do the Marines enter the basement?

10. How does the narrator describe the different units in “OIF”? What was the narrator’s unit?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the motif of baseball in “Money as a Weapons System.” What does baseball represent symbolically in the story? How does the narrator feel about baseball and the uniforms that have been sent to him? Why?

Essay Topic 2

Describe, analyze, and discuss the language in “OIF.” Why does the author employ military lingo and acronyms throughout the story? What effects does the language have on the reader? What are examples of these terms?

Essay Topic 3

Describe and analyze the character named “Old Man” in “In Vietnam They Had Whores.” How does the narrator come to know this character? What does the character do in the end of the story? Why?

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