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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 Jelal have ready for Rico?

2. What is the name of the camp in the Canadian Rockies?

3. How many companies are there at Camp Spooky?

4. How many hangings does the company experience?

5. What did Dubois think that modern day morality was based upon?

Short Essay Questions

1. Summarize the final chapter.

2. Why are the recruits more shocked at a flogging than seeing death?

3. In what ways does the drop go wrong in Chapter 10?

4. What is the aim of the mission in the final chapter?

5. Describe Rico, Leivy, and Smith's fight with the Marines.

6. What are Rasczak's and Jelal's roles aboard the Rodger Young?

7. What was the revolt of the scientists?

8. Describe the Rodger Young.

9. What does Rico think about during the thirty days mourning?

10. What do the soldiers capture on Planet P?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why do the students think Rico's father does not want him to join the army? Is Rico reacting against his father's views? In what way will Rico become a parasite on society if peacetime continues and he is in the army? Why is an army important in Heinlein's earth if it is peacetime? Does preparing for war in peacetime encourage war to happen?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the values of 1950s America.

1) Why was spirituality finding oneself such an issue during this time?

2) In what ways are the characters' negative characteristics a product of their time? Do you think America was going through a transitional phase in the fifties? What significant changes do you think occurred during this period?

3) Does modern society share any values with fifties America?

Essay Topic 3

Examine Heinlein's representation of sergeants in fiction. Is he a typical sergeant in fiction? Do you think Heinlein's representation of Zim was influential? What other similar sergeants can they think of? How realistic do you think Heinlein's portrayal of a sergeant is?

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