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Waiting For Eden Quiz

Elliot Ackerman

This Study Guide consists of approximately 41 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Waiting For Eden.

Waiting For Eden by Elliot Ackerman

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+Chapters Summary and Analysis

Pages 108 - 138

Pages 139 - 173

Symbols and Symbolism

Themes and Motifs

Styles

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Waiting For Eden Quiz

Elliot Ackerman

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Questions 1-5 of 25:

1.

What is the setting of this novel? (from Pages 1 - 35)

In a hospital during and after the Iraq War.

In Mary's childhood home, early 1980s.

In a C-17, present day.

Survival school in Maine during the Iraq War.

2.

Why does the author use a narrator that is dead? (from Pages 1 - 35)

It appeals to readers believing in an an after-life.

It provides an omniscient view of people's thoughts and actions.

The author could not find another reliable character to tell the story.

It expresses how many soldiers have died in the war.

3.

Why were the nurses satisfied with their work? (from Pages 1 - 35)

They were able to keep both Eden and the other soldier alive.

They managed to keep the most wounded man alive for the duration of the flight.

They managed to find a pocket of unburned skin on Eden where a needle could be inserted.

They were able to get Eden responding.

4.

When gave figures out Eden's communication, what is his only course of action? (from Pages 139 - 173)

To tell Mary and convince her to end Eden's life.

To tell the doctors of a possible recovery.

To set up a communication schedule with Eden.

To inject him with medication to hasten his end.

5.

What is the symbolism of Eden biting off a portion of his tongue? (from Pages 108 - 138)

It is yet another missing part in the litany of injuries.

Now he has no portion of his body that remains uninjured.

It is the organ for communication.

Now he will never be able to communicate by speaking.

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