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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 Rico ready to do?

2. Which character is too tired to eat?

3. Where are the recruits sent for survival training?

4. When are most of the exercises held?

5. What does Carmencita Ibanez want to become?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Rico find it difficult to adjust to army life?

2. How do the MIs respond to the loss of Breckenbridge?

3. How does Zim react to the people who challenge him?

4. Why does the fleet sergeant think Rico has done well to joint the MI?

5. What are the benefits of joining the army?

6. What is Rico's opinion of boot camp in retrospect?

7. Why does the fleet sergeant discourage the two boys from joining the army?

8. In what ways does training becoming harder in Chapter 4?

9. How do Rico's parents receive the news that he is going to join the army?

10. What is Rico's father's problem with Rico joining the army?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In 1998 Starship Troopers was made into a film directed by Paul Verhoeven. How different is the film from the book? Why do you think Verhoeven changed the ideas from the book so much? Could he have successfully made a film that was more directly like the book?

Essay Topic 2

Starship Troopers is part of the science fiction genre.

1) What are the conventions of the science fiction genre in terms of character, language, and plot?

2) In what way did Starship Troopers help to set the template for similar novels? Do modern novels still use the ideas used in Starship Troopers?

Essay Topic 3

Pick a character from the novel and discuss their goals and motives. Do they achieve their motive? Why? Do the share similar goals and motives with other characters? Do their goals clash with other characters with other characters? How do the characters' goals and motives affect their interaction with each other?

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