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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. When did Marlantes join the Marine Corps?
2. In a retelling of a classic illustration of the code of Bushido, what was the name of the samurai lord who was exiled from the capital?
3. In Chapter Eight, how close was Marlantes' company to Khe Sanh?
4. What was the name of the private in Chapter Six who crawled over with Kool-Aid stains around his mouth?
5. What was the name of PFC Nelson's friend who died at the beginning of Chapter Six?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe the injuries of the three who fell off the ledge of a cliff in Chapter 7.
2. How did Marlantes describe a deliberate lie?
3. How did Marlantes part from Meg?
4. Why was lying about kills prevalent in Vietnam?
5. In 1967, what did President Johnson talk about in a speech he made in El Paso?
6. How could an individual in the military of a Western democracy have had freedom to disobey orders?
7. What did Niemi do and why when a helicopter went down?
8. What did Marlantes do after he decided to leave college?
9. In Chapter Eight, why did Marlantes order Utter not to go through some cut brush?
10. When Marlantes learned that superior officers hated to chew him out because of all his medals, what did he do?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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.
Essay Topic 2
In Chapter Four, Marlantes shared the struggle he had reconciling the fact that he was a good person, yet he had hurt people. Discuss how Marlantes dealt with this split in himself.
Essay Topic 3
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.
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