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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 kind of store does Mandella go to?

2. What do Moore and Mandella explore at the end of the chapter?

3. Who attacked Mandella?

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

5. Which of his relative's does Mandella call in this chapter?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. How does the battle end in Chapter 7, Part 3?

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

7. How does the happy pill help Mandella when his ship is attacked?

8. Why can the hospital not help Mandella's mother in Chapter 11, Part 2?

9. How are the cooks making the alcohol?

10. Why do Mandella and Charlie decide against the idea of evacuating all personnel into the stasis field?

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

Discuss Haldeman's life. In what way do you think his life and personality are reflected in the book?

Essay Topic 3

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

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