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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 does Jack not go see while on furlough?

2. Who does Jack smoke a cigarette with while waiting for the officers to arrive?

3. Why is Jack afraid to write a girl?

4. What does the person who Jack calls ask him to do?

5. What does Jack do on weekend leave?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Jack and Dotty's afternoon together.

2. Explain what Jack is afraid Dotty will find out in Part 1, Chapter 5.

3. Explain why Jack decides to keep a piece of flak from one of his missions.

4. Describe what happens when a bomb is stuck during one of Jack's missions.

5. Explain why Jack is so nervous to hear his mother's voice.

6. Analyze how Jack's first mission begins to change him.

7. Describe how Jack enlists in the Army Air Corps.

8. Describe the character Dotty.

9. Recall from the text what Jack sees happen to a plane that is caught in a downdraft.

10. Recall what Jack does to get home to New York.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The setting in The Last Mission is vital to the whole tone of the story. The setting almost becomes a character itself because of how much it shapes the story. Describe how the author uses the different settings in The Last Mission to set the tone for his story. Different settings to explore: boot camp in Florida, flight training in Louisiana, weekend leave in New Orleans, furlough in New York, Northumberland Air Base in England, the air missions, Czechoslovakia as a POW, and Austria as a POW.

Essay Topic 2

The book, The Last Mission, is historical fiction, it is set during World War II. Research and analyze World War II. Which countries were involved in the war? What did Hitler and Germany do that began the fighting? At what point did the United States enter the war? How was the Army Air Corps important to the outcome of the war?

Essay Topic 3

After Jack is captured by the Germans, he is nervous they will find out he is Jewish and put him in a concentration camp or kill him. Choose one concentration camp to write a research paper about, also including a brief explanation about why the Germans tried to exterminate the Jewish people.

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