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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 4, what did a friend send Bartle?

2. In Chapter 1, what did Serling give Murph and Bartle to eat after the occupants of a car were killed?

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

4. In Chapter 1, what flowers did Malik say that a neighbor used to grow?

5. After Bartle gets off the first plane in the United States in Chapter 5, where does he go first?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 5, what did the men on the plane from Germany do when they see the ocean?

2. In Chapter 2, how did Bartle compare Murph and Sterling?

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

4. How did Bartle describe a photograph that he saw of Murph and his girlfriend?

5. How did Bartle describe the bargirl he meets in Chapter 3?

6. In Chapter 5, how did Bartle describe what he saw as he stared out the window after the plane came to the Atlantic Ocean?

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

8. What was the bar like where Bartle went in the airport in Chapter 5?

9. In Chapter 1, who was Spc. Miriam Jackson, and how did she die?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Sterling had been in three previous tours in Iraq, and he seems to be a battle-hardened soldier. How is Sterling described by Bartle? What do his actions seem to say about the man? Why can Sterling be described as a tough, but gentle man?

Essay Topic 2

In Chapter 1, Bartle asks the question “What kind of men are we?” (21). What does he mean by that question at that time? What responsibility does he take for that man’s death? What does this incident foreshadow about the way that Bartle makes himself responsible for the tragedies he is a part of, especially Murph’s death? What does Bartle decide about the type of man that he is?

Essay Topic 3

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.

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