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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 color hair did a female medic have in Chapter 8?
2. In Chapter 7, in what type of tree did Bartle find his initials carved?
3. In Chapter 6, where were Bartle and the other soldiers when a flock of birds flew out of the orchard?
4. At the end of Chapter 9, what did Bartle throw in the river?
5. What animal did Bartle try to befriend in Chapter 9?
Short Essay Questions
1. How did Bartle describe the location of his mother's house?
2. What was Bartle's life like at the beginning of Chapter 9?
3. In Chapter 6, as Bartle and the other men stormed the orchard, what did they see when the bullets started being fired?
4. What was Bartle doing at the beginning of Chapter 7?
5. In Chapter 6, what did the city look like when Bartle and the other men walked through it?
6. What was the only exercise that Bartle was getting at the beginning of Chapter 7?
7. In Chapter 7, what did Bartle remember Murph telling him about some canaries?
8. In Chapter 6, what regret does Bartle have over not going to Murph when Murph was kneeling next to a private who was killed?
9. What did the soliders find in the alley in Chapter 10?
10. In Chapter 7, why did Luke call 911?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
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 3
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?
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