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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 is Jack Stecker's role?

2. In what year is Banning sent to the Philippines?

3. Who investigates reports to find out why the testing of the rifles and the men associated with this task is going poorly?

4. Who learns that the policy of the officer is for the personnel to live off base with compensation?

5. Who receives severance pay while he is in jail for being drunk?

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. What happens when McCoy runs into Macklin at Quantico?

3. How does Pick reveal his loyalty to his friend McCoy on Thanksgiving?

4. Why is Pick upset with Intelligence regarding McCoy's reassignment and moving?

5. When McCoy reports for his first assignment as courier, what is he shocked to discover?

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

7. Why does Stecker want to help McCoy on the base?

8. Why is McCoy disturbed to learn that Sage comes from a wealthy family?

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

10. How does Stecker trace Macklin's involvement with McCoy and clear McCoy's record?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The role of women in The Corps: Book 1 Semper Fi takes on different forms and often are stereotypical. What labels do you see that Griffin associates with women? Do you think these stereotypes ring true? Do they reflect Griffin's own experiences and biases or are they an accurate reflection of the early 1940s? Do they have appeal to men or women?

Essay Topic 2

Griffin employs bold and and effective language with some powerful symbolism. Choose an example of symbolism, briefly describe it, and identify the technique which it embodies.

Essay Topic 3

Death and violence appear throughout The Corps: Book 1 Semper Fi. Who dies? Who is violent? In what ways are characters violent or abusive? What is their effect on other characters and their lives? Do these characters change over time?

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