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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 10, what was a man doing when he saw Murph?
2. What animal did Bartle try to befriend in Chapter 9?
3. What did Sterling and Bartle do with Murph's body?
4. When Bartle and other solider were assessed for reentry to civilian life, in what direction were they from Al Tafar?
5. Who did Murph approach in Chapter 10?
Short Essay Questions
1. What did Captain Anderson show Bartle, and what did he want to know?
2. What was the only exercise that Bartle was getting at the beginning of Chapter 7?
3. What did Bartle take with him and what did he do with the items when Captain Anderson arrested him?
4. What was the day like when the captain from C.I.D. came to see Bartle?
5. What did Bartle see in Chapter 6 as he and the other men walked on line through the ragged grove?
6. In Chapter 6, what did the city look like when Bartle and the other men walked through it?
7. In Chapter 6, what regret does Bartle have over not going to Murph when Murph was kneeling next to a private who was killed?
8. How did Bartle describe the location of his mother's house?
9. What was Bartle doing at the beginning of Chapter 7?
10. What did Bartle spend a great deal of time trying to identify when he noticed changes in Murph in Chapter 8?
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
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?
Essay Topic 3
Bartle does not feel at home when he returns to his mother’s house in Virginia. What does Bartle’s homecoming reveal about home as a place or a state of mind? What is home at that point in the novel for Bartle?
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