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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 did Marlantes' great-grandmother live?
2. When was Zoomer injured?
3. Where did Marlantes go when he first felt emotion about the killing he had done during the war?
4. In Chapter Four, how many men did Marlantes' take with him to assess how his platoon was doing?
5. When an teenage NVA soldier started to throw a grenade at Marlantes, how far from Marlantes was the hole he was standing in?
Short Essay Questions
1. What emotions did Marlantes feel when he had to kill?
2. How was Marlantes' grandfather injured?
3. Why was the 1970s therapy group that Marlantes attended a damaging experience?
4. What did Marlantes believe happened to warriors who were not adequately prepared to take life away from others?
5. Describe Marlantes' grandmother and how she treated her children.
6. Why did Marlantes keep a picture of a girl from Mozambique on his file cabinet.
7. In 1968 when Marlantes was in charge of an undermanned platoon, how did he and his men guide a helicopter team in to rescue the wounded?
8. What response would people who actually fought and won battles have?
9. When Zoomer was struggling to breathe, what incident did Marlantes remember from his youth?
10. Why did Marlantes say that war is the antithesis of a fundamental rule of moral conduct?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
In Chapter Eight, Marlantes stated that medals were all mixed up with hierarchy, politics, and even job descriptions. Discuss the subject of military medals and what Marlantes thought of medals.
Essay Topic 2
Marlantes discussed two different categories of lying. The objective of this lesson is to discuss the two different categories of lies that Marlantes told.
Essay Topic 3
In Chapter Eight, Marlantes discussed heroism. Discuss heroes and heroism
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