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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 Mandella think that the insides of the animals look like?
2. What is the name of Mandella's team?
3. What do the troops have that is more advanced than the Taurans?
4. What is the name of the company's ship?
5. What does the company build on Stargate?
Short Essay Questions
1. What do squad leaders think are the reasons for low morale on the ship?
2. Describe the journey to Charon.
3. What is the company's job on darkside?
4. How can the suits be dangerous to its user?
5. What is Mandella's feeling about killing the animals in Chapter 12?
6. Why does Mandella think training in the freezing cold is pointless?
7. How has Stargate changed since the last time Mandella was there?
8. Why are the reasons for the army maintaining a strict level of discipline during their journey in Chapter 6?
9. With what have the platoon commanders been pre-programmed?
10. What news does the captain bring the troops in Chapter 10?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
The Forever War is written in the first person and with Haldeman as narrator. Why do you think Haldeman chose to write the story in the first person? How do you think the meaning of the story would have changed if it were written in the third person? What difference does it make it make to the story that Haldeman is one of the characters?
Essay Topic 2
The Forever War is a famous book which has greatly influenced science fiction. Choose a book written after the Forever War that you think was influenced by the novel and discuss there similarities in terms of
a) plot
b) character
c) themes.
Essay Topic 3
Choose a scene from the novel and critically analyze it in terms of the following:
1) Character development
2) Plot development.
3) Its significance to the book overall.
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