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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 meals were C-ration packages supposed to provide?

2. While Ned's division was on Eniwetok, how long were other Marine units kept cooped up on transport ships waiting in Chapter 21?

3. How many code talkers were recommended for every signal company in Chapter 19?

4. When did Ned's training end?

5. What was D-day for Bougainville?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Ned see from the ship when the shelling began on Bougainville?

2. What wass the geography like on Bougainville?

3. How were Ned and the others allowed to speak their language at Camp Elliott and how did it make them feel?

4. What happened the first time that Bill McCabe and Sam Begay used Navajo code?

5. What recommendations were made for having code talkers in regiments, battalions, regiments, scout companies, and divisions?

6. What ideas did the Japanese have about war and how did they treat prisoners of war?

7. What was security like for the code?

8. What was Operation Forager?

9. What was Operation Cartwheel?

10. Why did the code talkers go back to Hawaii in Chapter 19?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The code talkers were trained in secrecy. Why were the code talkers trained in secrecy? Why did they have to keep the code in their head? Why was the code not written down and carried into battle?

Essay Topic 2

The Navajo language was used to create a code during World War II? Why was the Navajo language used to create a code? Why were the code talkers so important when fighting the Japanese?

Essay Topic 3

Genre is a means of classifying literature. What is the genre of the novel? Why is it not realistic fiction?

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