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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 President Johnson give a speech in September 1967?

2. In the incident where body count was exaggerated in Chapter Six, what millimeter high explosives were dropped?

3. Where was Marlantes driving in 1967 when President Johnson gave a speech?

4. In Chapter Eight, what did a kid break when he had to jump after a pilot gunned the chopper out of the zone too soon?

5. Whose bow did the warrior Philoctetes carry?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Marlantes' Scout survival training?

2. How could an individual in the military of a Western democracy have had freedom to disobey orders?

3. How did Marlantes part from Meg?

4. Describe the conditions for Marlantes' company at the beginning of Chapter Eight.

5. Why were military men urged not to wear their uniforms around citizens, and why did Marlantes often ignored this request?

6. How did Marlantes' first wife feel about his book, "What is it Like to Go to War"?

7. In Chapter Nine, what greeted Marlantes when he walked down the street?

8. How did Marlantes get Utter down the hill?

9. What was the meaning of the battlefield myth that the enemy tied wire around themselves so they wouldn't bleed so fast?

10. For what did Marlantes believe the Vietnam War would be infamous?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In Chapter Ten, Marlantes stated that the Club's membership requirement of silence needed to be rescinded. Discuss the requirement of silence and why it should have been rescinded.

Essay Topic 2

In Chapter Six, Marlantes stated that the Vietnam War would be infamous for the lies that were told. The objective of this lesson is to discuss how lying manifests during war.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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