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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. How is Jack woken on the day of his first mission?

2. Whose birth certificate did Jack use to enlist?

3. What does the person Jack calls promise to do?

4. Why is Jack nervous about what he says and does around his crew?

5. Why is Jack excited about the location of his first mission?

Short Essay Questions

1. Recall from the text how Jack reacts his first time up in the air.

2. Recall what Jack and Dotty talk about when he calls her from New Orleans.

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

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

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

6. Describe the character Dotty.

7. Describe what Jack spends his furlough doing in Part 1, Chapter 5.

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

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

10. Explain what happens to Pratt, Jack's crew mate, before they leave on furlough.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

One theme in The Last Mission is the routine of military life. This routine takes up a good portion of this section of the book. Jack, however, does not seem to get used to the missions. Examine the theme of routine of military life and how Jack adjusts to this routine.

Part 1) How is Jack coping with the missions, even though they are routine? Is he still excited about them?

Part 2) Does anything ever happen to break up the routine of everyday military life?

Part 3) How does the routine of military life set the tone for this section of the book?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

In The Last Mission, Godfather II is heavily hit with flak and the wing falls off causing several of the crew members to parachute into enemy territory. Several of Jack's crew mates have died, but Jack seems unable to face the reality that they are dead. Analyze how Jack deals with shock and grief in The Last Mission.

Part 1) What is grief? What can cause grief and shock?

Part 2) What happens to Jack in this section of the book that causes him to have grief and shock?

Part 3) How does Jack deal with grief? Is Jack's reaction to the death of his friends an example of his youth?

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