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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 is Rodriguez covered in during the beginning of "Prayer in the Furnace"?

2. Why did Waguih join the military?

3. How many of the Marines Jenks was with died from the blast that injured him?

4. What is Voorstadt eating in the beginning of "Ten Kliks South"?

5. How many men in Rodriguez's battalion have been killed by the end of deployment in "Prayer in the Furnace"?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Waguih relate to Zara regarding propaganda in “Psychological Operations”?

5. What does the narrator think about when he passes the medic tent in “Ten Kliks South”?

6. How would you describe the narrative style of “Unless it’s a Sucking Chest Wound”? What takes place in the opening of the story?

7. How does the theme of guilt apply to Wilson in “War Stories”?

8. How does the narrator describe the statistics of Rodriguez’s battalion in “Prayer in the Furnace”?

9. How are the characters of Sarah and Jessie described in “War Stories”?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the theme and representation of bureaucracy in “Money as a Weapons System.” Does the author present the bureaucratic processes of the military in a favorable light or an unfavorable one? Why? How does the narrator feel about the bureaucratic system?

Essay Topic 2

Describe the narrator of “After Action Report.” What is the arc of this character? What initiates changes in the character? How do these changes manifest?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the narrator’s relationship with his father in “In Vietnam They Had Whores.” Why is the narrator’s father telling him war stories in the beginning of the story? How does the narrator respond to the stories?

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