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

2. What is the name of the psychiatrist Detective Ryan consults about the women's murders he is investigating?

3. How long does John rent a car for when he comes back from Vietnam for operation Boxwood Green?

4. Who does Ritter and Greer interrogate on the flight back to the U.S. from Vietnam?

5. Who kills Eddie Morello in the book?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is the character Georgiy first described in the book?

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

3. How is Boxwood Green first described to the troops training for the mission?

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

5. How is Eddie Morello killed?

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

7. What does Xantha tell a police officer that picks her up on the street after John released her?

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

9. How is Doris's body found?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Examine the author's portrayal of the military. How does the author help put the reader into the military mindset, and what are we able to learn about the nature of this group based on their actions in the Boxwood Green mission?

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 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?

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