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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. How far is Haditha from Baghdad?

2. What is the priest's former career in "Prayer in the Furnace"?

3. How many people do the Marines estimate they killed per gun in "Ten Kliks South"?

4. What is Deetz eating in "Ten Kliks South"?

5. What word from "Prayer in the Furnace" refers to biographies of saints or venerated persons?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the theme of guilt apply to Boylan in “Unless it’s a Sucking Chest Wound”?

2. What does Rodriguez symbolize in “Prayer in the Furnace”?

3. What does the narrator realize during the memorial in “In Vietnam They Had Whores”?

4. How are the prostitutes from the Vietnam War described in “In Vietnam They Had Whores”?

5. How does Jenks describe his experience when injured in “War Stories”?

6. What causes Jewett to risk insubordination in “Ten Kliks South”?

7. What compels the Marines to create mathematical formulas in “Ten Kliks South”?

8. How does the theme of exploitation apply to Waguih in “Psychological Operations”?

9. What does Waguih represent in “Psychological Operations”? What was Waguih’s role in the military?

10. What does the narrator represent symbolically in “Unless it’s a Sucking Chest Wound”?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe and discuss the characters of Wilson and Jenks in “War Stories.” How old are these characters? Where do they live? Why are they meeting Sarah and Jessie in the narrative? What is their relationship to one another?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss aspects of irony and foreshadowing in “FRAGO.” What is ironic about the Iraqis that have been saved in the story? What happens to them? How is “the enemy” defined in this story?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the character of Rachel in “Bodies.” What does Rachel represent symbolically for the narrator? How has Rachel influenced the narrator’s actions? What is symbolized by her absence at the end of the story?

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