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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. Who does Rico have a fight with in this chapter?

2. What camp did Rico's father train at?

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

4. Who does Rico tell that he want to go career?

5. Why are the troops going to Klendathu?

Short Essay Questions

1. Summarize Chapter 9.

2. Why has Rico's father joined the army?

3. Why has no one committed a 9080 in Zim's training before?

4. What does Rico overhear Zim and Hendrick saying?

5. What does Rico think about during the night?

6. What does Frankel order Zim to do?

7. Describe the Bugs.

8. Describe the Rodger Young.

9. Describe meal time on Tours.

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Identify the main themes of the story. Why do you think these themes are so important to the story? How does Heinlein use character and setting to express these themes?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss Heinlein's life. In what way do you think his life and personality is reflected in the book?

Essay Topic 3

Examine the recruitment process Heinlein portrays in the book. Is Mr. Dubois basically working as a teacher to find army recruits? What alternative opinions do the students think Rico has available to him? Why is Mr. Dubois and the government teaching such ideology when at the time there is no war? Does such ideology gear a population for war?

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