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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 stays and dies in the underground base?

2. Who is sick at the beginning of this chapter?

3. Who appears after a year on Sade-138?

4. Who attacked Mandella?

5. Who does Mandella have an appointment with in this chapter?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why can Mandella's company be called test tube babies?

2. How are the cooks making the alcohol?

3. Why does it seem that there are only two battles in the book?

4. Why are there no Help Wanted ads in the newspaper?

5. Summarize The Forever War story.

6. How do the Taurans try and defeat the humans when their darts don't work?

7. What problems do Mandella and Moore identify when they explore the ship?

8. What is the happy pill?

9. What are Rhonda's reasons for her sexual relationship with Mandella's mother?

10. Why does Mandella not put an end to the distillery run by the cooks?

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

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?

Essay Topic 3

Write a 500-word essay revolving around the following statement: The novel is a statement against war.

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