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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 does John use to ride onto land in operation Boxwood Green?

2. What is the name of the ship John takes to get to Vietnam in Boxwood Green?

3. What is the name of John's contact in Boxwood Green?

4. Who kills Eddie Morello in the book?

5. What day is John ordered to go to Quantico to begin his training with the Boxwood Green operation?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How do the police use Xantha to find the drug lab she was held in?

3. What does John do with Billy after he kidnaps him and helps save Doris?

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

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

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

7. How does John use a recompression chamber during his interrogation of Billy on Battery Island?

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

9. What does Charon do inside the police evidence room in Chapter 36?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The author offers several examples of imprisonment throughout the book in both literal and figurative senses.

Part 1.) What can we learn about prisoners of war based on the portrayal of Zacharias and Sender Green in the book?

Part 2.) How does the author portray John as being in a prison within his own mind and what impact does this mentality have on his actions towards others?

Part 3.) What is different about the imprisonment faced by Pam and the other women held by Henry Tucker? How is this imprisonment more severe than the 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

Examine the portrayal of mourning shown in the book. What can we learn about the nature of John based on his ways of mourning his dead wife and Pam? Do women appear to be a soft spot for this hardened character?

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