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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. Where was Murph found in Chapter 10?
2. When were Bartle and other soliders assessed for reentry to civilian life?
3. What animals did Bartle see in the city besides a dog in Chapter 6?
4. When did the events in Chapter 10 take place?
5. What color car did the captain from C.I.D. drive in Chapter 9?
Short Essay Questions
1. What did Captain Anderson show Bartle, and what did he want to know?
2. What did the soliders find in the alley in Chapter 10?
3. What did Bartle take with him and what did he do with the items when Captain Anderson arrested him?
4. What did Bartle spend a great deal of time trying to identify when he noticed changes in Murph in Chapter 8?
5. In Chapter 7, why did Bartle join the army?
6. What was Bartle's life like at the beginning of Chapter 9?
7. What was Bartle doing at the beginning of Chapter 7?
8. How did a cartwright lead the soldiers to Murph's body?
9. In Chapter 7, what did Bartle remember Murph telling him about some canaries?
10. In Chapter 10, what was the last sighting of Murph?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 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
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?
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