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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 were the names of Marlantes' sons?

2. In Chapter Two, how old was Marlantes' when he endured a storm on his grandfather's fishing boat?

3. What human form did the god in "Mahabharata" take?

4. When did Marlantes first write a recurring nightmare in his journal?

5. When Marlantes was with his company in the high mountains that formed the Vietnamese border with Laos, what did he target for an air strike?

Short Essay Questions

1. What type of atrocities did Jane Goodall witness?

2. What side did Marlantes believe there was that men tried to deny?

3. What emotions did Marlantes feel when he had to kill?

4. How did Marlantes try to deal with the darkness and dark deeds that he carried inside after Vietnam?

5. Describe Marlantes' grandmother and how she treated her children.

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

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

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

9. When was the first time that Marlantes felt any emotion about having killed?

10. 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?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In Chapter Three, Marlantes commented that warriors needed to be careful about whom politicians made out to be devils. Discuss the limitations and difficulties of choosing the right side to fight on.

Essay Topic 2

In Chapter Five, Marlantes discussed the enemy within a person. Discuss the enemy within.

Essay Topic 3

In Chapter Four, Marlantes believed that war could be exhilarating. Discuss why war could be exhilarating and what Marlantes thought should be done about those feelings.

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