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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 Sessions say that he will not include in his military report about the artillery and the convoy trip?

2. Who did McCoy fail to report to that Sessions gets angry about?

3. When they split the convoy, where do Zimmerman and Sessions go?

4. Who is the hotel doorman that is playing poker along with McCoy at the Cathay Mansions?

5. Why do McCoy and Ernie Zimmerman each go to different restaurants to eat at Chen-chiang?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does McCoy take Sessions with him to Huimin?

2. Why do McCoy and Zimmerman separate to eat at different restaurants?

3. How does Banning reveal his trust in McCoy with Sessions?

4. Why is McCoy trying to figure out if he needs a weapon to take with him to the Cathay Mansion?

5. Why does McCoy fail to take Sessions with him in Weifang?

6. After the charges against McCoy are dropped, how does his relationship with Banning change?

7. Why is McCoy upset about being sent back to the United States?

8. Why does McCoy feel trapped in the Marine Corps due to the coming war?

9. Why does McCoy know how to beat the car dealer at his own game?

10. Why does McCoy hesitate at first but eventually leaves for Norristown?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In The Corps: Book 1 Semper Fi, Griffin's American society shows a conscious selectivity about technology. What do you think of the technology that McCoy employs? Which aspects do you find more or less appealing? How is technology associated with power and rebellion?

Essay Topic 2

Banning and McCoy are two of the most active characters in discussing their social and political beliefs and in the decision-making process for the military and espionage events that unfold in the book.

Part 1) What is their relationship? How do they co-exist and how do they interact? What is similar about them and what is different?

Part 2) What are some events that Banning had a direct influence upon? What are some events that McCoy had a direct influence upon?

Part 3) Which character offers support or sympathy to people that attempt to jump the Wall? Which one is stronger and why?

Essay Topic 3

Explain the significance of the novel's title. What did Griffin mean by calling the book The Corps: Book 1 Semper Fi?

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