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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 do the troops build on Sade-138?

2. Where do the troops travel back to after the battle?

3. Where does Mandella see the blinking light?

4. Who stays and dies in the underground base?

5. Where do Mandella and Marygay ride their bicycles to?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What do Marygay and Mandella decide on the phone in Chapter 9, Part 2?

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

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

6. How do Marygay and Mandella think the war has changed the world?

7. How does Graubard die?

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

9. What does Mandella do immediately upon arriving at Stargate?

10. How does the woman at the farmhouse react to Mandella's presence in Chapter 10, Part 2?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare Haldeman's book to similar science fiction novels.

1) Which ideas has he taken from previous works?

2) How has he used these ideas to develop his own meaning?

3) In what way do you think science fiction writers have almost worked together to create logical other worlds? Would these novels make sense if the worlds they developed were entirely unique?

Essay Topic 2

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 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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