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

2. Who does Pick see at breakfast that says that Pick was right about discharges?

3. When McCoy and Pick go out to bars in New York City, who pays for their tab?

4. Where does McCoy take his family out for dinner?

5. Where is McCoy going to meet his date for lunch in New York City?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Elly celebrate Stecker's promotion?

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

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

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

5. How is Pick different from other Marines in his upbringing?

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

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

8. Why does McCoy advise Pick to not be too chummy at the Platoon Leader's Course?

9. When McCoy is told he cannot have his car on base, how does Stecker help him out?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The Corps: Book 1 Semper Fi is written primarily in the third-person and omniscient point of view. Is this point of view more or less effective than telling the story from the first-person perspective of McCoy?

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 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.

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