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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. In Chapter 5 when Bartle went to his room, where did he put his dog tags?

2. By September, how many soldiers had been killed?

3. What is the date in Chapter 3?

4. In Chapter 1, how many days did Bartle and Murph crawl along the rooftop grit?

5. In Chapter 4, what had Bartle and the other soldiers been fighting over for the last few nights?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Bartle think about when he looked at the battalion scattered throughout the plane from Germany?

2. What does Bartle say about Sterling in Chapter 2?

3. How did Bartle remember Mrs. Murphy's appearance in Chapter 2?

4. What did Murph and Bartle hear in Chapter 4 as the night grew cool?

5. What did Bartle notice in Chapter 5 when the plane from Germany flew over land?

6. In Chapter 4, what was a casualty feeder card?

7. At the end of Chapter 2, what did Sterling do to Bartle and why?

8. When Bartle lays down at the end of Chapter 5, what was going through his mind?

9. In Chapter 2, how did the days pass as Bartle and Murph's ship-out date approached?

10. How many had the war killed by September in Chapter 1?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Although in his early 20s, Bartle is still a boy at the beginning of the novel. Explain how the experiences that Bartle endures change him from a boy to a person tortured by the past to a man able to face the future.

Essay Topic 2

On page 13, Bartle sees death as an affirmation of his life and the lives of the other soldiers. Why does he see death as an affirmation of his life and the lives of the other soldiers at that time? How does his view of death change throughout the course of the novel? What is his view of death at the novel’s conclusion?

Essay Topic 3

Mood in a novel is the overall feeling that readers have when they read a story. How does the author create mood in the novel? What is the overall mood in the book?

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