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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 code talker was killed by friendly fire?
2. What was the D-day for Saipan in Chapter 20?
3. How far did Gene-Gene, sort of a chief of the Solomon Islanders, swim through shark- and crocodile-infested waters to tell an American Ranger squad where the Japanese were?
4. In Chapter 12, what were the first rifles that Ned and the others were issued?
5. When was Ned and the Marine Corps birthday?
Short Essay Questions
1. What did Ned see from the ship when the shelling began on Bougainville?
2. What was Operation Cartwheel?
3. In Chapter 22, why was Ned sent to Hawaii?
4. What happened to the Japanese women and children on Saipan when the Marines invaded and why?
5. How were Ned and the others allowed to speak their language at Camp Elliott and how did it make them feel?
6. What wass the geography like on Bougainville?
7. What did it take to secure Guadalcanal?
8. What did the Navajo believe about corpses, and how did they deal with that in combat?
9. In Chapter 15, what desert exercise did Ned participate in, and why did the whites do so poorly?
10. Of the 12 landing zones in Chapter 17, why was Blue Beach the worst?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Teachers at the boarding school treated the Indian students harshly. How would you describe the way that the teachers at the boarding school treated the Indian students? In what way were they harsh? How were they condescending?
Essay Topic 2
Friendly fire is an attack by military troops on their own or neutral troops. What are some examples of friendly fire in the novel? Why was it difficult to avoid instances of friendly fire?
Essay Topic 3
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?
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