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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 Four, how did Marlantes get to the bridge that his platoon was holding?

2. Where was Zoomer injured?

3. How old was Marlantes' son when he found him curled up with a mutilated picture of the two of them?

4. In Chapter Four, where was the platoon that Marlantes was commanding holding a key bridge?

5. When did Marlantes attend an encounter, group-therapy weekend?

Short Essay Questions

1. What response would people who actually fought and won battles have?

2. What type of atrocities did Jane Goodall witness?

3. What was a critical psychological issue about weapons technology?

4. Why was the 1970s therapy group that Marlantes attended a damaging experience?

5. Describe the team that Marlantes took when he went to access the position of his platoon that was holding a bridge.

6. In "Mahabharata," why couldn't Arjuna fight?

7. Why did Marlantes believe that warriors needed to be spiritual people?

8. What did Marlantes lose after Vietnam and why?

9. Why did Marlantes keep a picture of a girl from Mozambique on his file cabinet.

10. What was the recurring nightmare that Marlantes first had?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Marlantes believed that changes in the military could bring more mature and psychologically balanced warriors. Discuss the changes Marlantes felt the military needed to make to create balanced warriors.

Essay Topic 2

In Chapter Nine, Marlantes said that warriors needed to be prepared before and after war to come home. Discuss how Marlantes believed that warriors should have been prepared to come home.

Essay Topic 3

In Chapter Two, Marlantes discussed an incident in which the death of an NVA teen soldier was imprinted on his brain for many years. Discuss the incident, why it lingered in Marlantes' memory for so long, and how he dealt with the memory.

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