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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 8, how long had a solider been in Iraq who was with Murph trying to revive a female medic?
2. When did the events in Chapter 9 take place?
3. In Chapter 7, what birds did Bartle remember Murph saying that his father brought home?
4. In Chapter 9, how long had it been since Bartle had been sober?
5. What animals did Bartle see in the city besides a dog in Chapter 6?
Short Essay Questions
1. In Chapter 7, what did Bartle remember Murph telling him about some canaries?
2. What did Captain Anderson show Bartle, and what did he want to know?
3. In Chapter 6, what regret does Bartle have over not going to Murph when Murph was kneeling next to a private who was killed?
4. In Chapter 7, why did Bartle join the army?
5. What was the day like when the captain from C.I.D. came to see Bartle?
6. What did Bartle take with him and what did he do with the items when Captain Anderson arrested him?
7. In Chapter 10, what was the last sighting of Murph?
8. In Chapter 9, how would Bartle spend his mornings?
9. In Chapter 6, why did the lieutenant stop when he saw a body on the bridge in the city?
10. Why did Sterling think that Murph was a dead man in Chapter 8?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
The Yellow Birds is told from a first-person point of view. How does the point of view influence the story? How is what readers known about events and characters determined by the point of view of the novel?
Essay Topic 2
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?
Essay Topic 3
After the war, Bartle is searching for something. What is Bartle searching for and how does he find what he is looking for?
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