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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 the name of the novel's main character?

2. Where does the company take a six-month journey?

3. Why does Mandella think that morale is low on the ship?

4. Who fits the troops into their suits?

5. Why does Cortez say that capital punishment is the only punishment for not following orders?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the companies' orders once they reach the planet?

2. How can the suits be dangerous to its user?

3. How does Mandella feel towards the enemy in Chapter 15?

4. Why are the heating mechanisms turned off in the opening chapter?

5. Describe the journey to Charon.

6. What is Mandella's feeling about killing the animals in Chapter 12?

7. What news does the captain bring the troops in Chapter 10?

8. Describe a fighting suit.

9. Why are the reasons for the army maintaining a strict level of discipline during their journey in Chapter 6?

10. How does Stott demonstrate how dangerous the suit can be?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Identify the main themes of the story. Why do you think these themes are so important to the story? How does Haldeman use character and setting to express these themes?

Essay Topic 2

The Forever War was made into a series of graphic novels. How different are the graphic novels from the book in terms of the following:

1) Themes

2) Setting

3) Character

Essay Topic 3

Write a 500-word essay that examines and answers the following question: How does Haldeman create a futuristic world, different from our own, while still making it understandable to the reader?

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