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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. What was the weather like in Chapter 9 when a captain from C.I.D. arrived?
2. In Chapter 8, what was the LT doing when a major came to the platoon?
3. What was the time of day at the very end of Chapter 6?
4. What injuries were there from the blast in the city in Chapter 6?
5. When Bartle walked along the river and the canal in Chapter 7, how many lean-tos did he find under elms?
Short Essay Questions
1. What did Bartle spend a great deal of time trying to identify when he noticed changes in Murph in Chapter 8?
2. In Chapter 7, why did Luke call 911?
3. What was Bartle's life like at the beginning of Chapter 9?
4. What did Bartle take with him and what did he do with the items when Captain Anderson arrested him?
5. How did a cartwright lead the soldiers to Murph's body?
6. In Chapter 6, what regret does Bartle have over not going to Murph when Murph was kneeling next to a private who was killed?
7. In Chapter 6, why did the lieutenant stop when he saw a body on the bridge in the city?
8. What was the day like when the captain from C.I.D. came to see Bartle?
9. In Chapter 6, what did the city look like when Bartle and the other men walked through it?
10. What was Bartle doing at the beginning of Chapter 7?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Murph’s father took some canaries from the mine and tried to set them free. What did the canaries do when they were set free? What do those canaries symbolize in the novel?
Essay Topic 2
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 3
There are times in the novel where the author uses foreshadowing to hint at events to come in the story. How does the author use foreshadowing to reveal future events and to create suspense?
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