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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. How many days will John stay at Quantico before leaving for Vietnam for operation Boxwood Green?

2. What were the marines at Quantico's training done around?

3. How long does it take John to get from Battery Island to Quantico on his boat?

4. Which of the following things does Ritter not tell MacKenzie when visiting him in Chapter 35?

5. What is the name of the state police captain that Oreza calls after deciding that Charon is the spy in the police?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Eddie Morello killed?

2. What is the nature of the conversation between John and Irvin in regard to operation Plastic Flower?

3. How is the training center at Quantico for the Boxwood Green mission described?

4. How are John's acts in Phase Three of operation Boxwood Green described?

5. How is John's visit with Sandy just before leaving for the Boxwood Green mission described?

6. What does John do with Doris after finding her with Billy in a building?

7. How is Peter Henderson's first meeting with a man named Marvin at a restaurant described in the book?

8. How does Henry Tucker find out about Doris going to the police about Pam's death?

9. How does the military use the USS Constellation as a diversion in operation Boxwood Green?

10. What does John do after riding the water sled to the Sender Green location?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The concept of remorse is a significant part of the story and is even the subject of the book's title.

Part 1.) Does John appear to have any remorse for his actions towards Henry's drug thugs and enemies in war?

Part 2.) What correlation does being remorseful have in terms of acting with humanity? Does John lack the ability to be humane, or did he think he was helping the greater good by killing others?

Essay Topic 2

Drugs have a large presence in the book and contributed to much conflict for the protagonist and others.

Part 1.) What impact does the presence of drugs have on the central conflicts of the story?

Part 2.) What might the author be saying about the nature of drug dealers and the way they run their operations based on the portrayal of Henry Tucker?

Part 3.) In what way might the author wish to use drugs as a way of inputting an element of danger within the text? What purpose does he have for this?

Essay Topic 3

The author uses the method of portraying multiple story arcs in the book as a way of slowly unraveling how each arc connects with the other.

Part 1.) What information are we able to learn about the book's characters that would have been absent if multiply story arcs were not used?

Part 2.) What tone might the author be trying to set in the book by using multiple character arcs to tell his story?

Part 3.) Is this method successful at revealing the secrets and mysteries of the book's characters or is it more confusing?

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