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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. At what hotel does Pick's grandfather occupy a penthouse?

2. Who does McCoy see sitting at the bar at the restaurant he goes with his family to?

3. Where is the shooting range that Stecker is driving to?

4. Who says that the Chief of Intelligence is quite impressed with McCoy?

5. What does McCoy realize about the beginning of the Platoon Leader's Course?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Pick reveal his independence in his rebellion against the General and his father's interference in his military assignment?

2. How does McCoy learn that his friend Pick is the heir to a hotel and shipping fortune when they go to New York?

3. Why does Tommy apply to the Marines?

4. How does Stecker realize that the trouble with the Garand rifle and the tests is not McCoy but due to Macklin?

5. Who is Ernestine Sage, and why does McCoy spend time with her at Pick's party?

6. What happens when McCoy runs into Macklin at Quantico?

7. When Macklin is being sent home by the Marines, how and why do they assign him as a mess officer?

8. Why is Pick assigned as junior aide-de-camp to General McInerney?

9. How does Banning get married to Ludmilla "officially"?

10. How does Sage initiate a romantic relationship with McCoy?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explain Griffin's use of humor in the book. Cite examples of at least two different instances of humor and explain why the author used them where he did.

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

Griffin discusses both patriotism and war vividly in The Corps: Book 1 Semper Fi. Find some examples in the book and discuss the effect of these topics on the character of Pickering.

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