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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 HE stand for?

2. What is the name of the training camp?

3. What order did Hendrick disobey?

4. What does Rico feel about training looking back to it?

5. Which character dies in this chapter?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is Rico's job upon landing?

3. What does Jejal tell his troops?

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

5. What is the best way to fight the Bugs?

6. What do the power suits enable a soldier to do?

7. Describe the three types of suits.

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

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

10. Describe Ace and Rico's fight.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare the characters of Ace and Rico.

1) In what way are their ideas different?

2) What is their relationship to each other?

3) Which one do you think would make the better officer and why?

Essay Topic 2

Heinlein was in the Navy and fought in the Korean War, adhering to the rule, writers should always write about what they know. Do you think it is obvious that Heinlein knows his subject? What difference do you think it makes to the story? Are there any moments where you think Heinlein does not portray a character or setting very well? What affect does it have on the story?

Essay Topic 3

Is Heinlein promoting the use of women in warfare? Why does he not have women fighting on the ground? Do the students agree that women and men are better at different jobs such as piloting and fighting? What kind of reaction do you think Heinlein would have gotten in the fifties in such a book if he had portrayed women as being flogged?

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