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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 does Ernie feel about Pick's parties?

2. Where do Pick and his friend decide to stay during flight school?

3. What does Ernie realize when McCoy returned to home after being wounded?

4. What does McCoy ask Zimmerman to do in Chapter II?

5. What is Pickering known for socially?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Ernie's mother feel about her's and Pick's best friend?

2. What does Flight Instructor Minter do with Pick on his first flight and what does he find out after the flight is over?

3. How does the Raiders first mission go and what is the difficulty involved with the pick-up point?

4. What does Pick and Stecker do after Carstairs tells them McCoy was wounded and he has given up on Martha?

5. To what job has Zimmerman and Kozonwski been assigned in Chapter I?

6. In what situation did Pickering discover he loved Martha?

7. How does McCoy feel about Ernie's actions in Chapter XI?

8. Why does Colonel Carlson come to Camp Elliot in Chapter XI?

9. What does Colonel Carlson tell his raiders about their training and where are they going next?

10. What happens that makes Martha finally admit her feelings for Pick?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In any book centered around the military, leadership of the troops is often crucial with the better leaders able to command the respect and loyalty of their men. The men's willingness to follow a particularly leader can have a decisive impact upon the success of a mission. Discuss the following:

1. Whose command style seems most effective? Analyze the elements of those effective leaders thoroughly and discuss the traits of the good leaders. What makes an excellent leader/commander? Give examples.

2. Whose command style seems most ineffective? Analyze the elements of those ineffective leaders thoroughly and discuss the traits of the poor leaders. What makes a poor leader/commander? Give examples.

3. Is disobeying a poor leader ever justifiable? Explain using details from the text, other books you have read and your personal experience. In times of war, disobeying an order can be punishable by death. Is this harsh sentence justifiable for such an act? Why or why not.

Essay Topic 2

Most protagonists are a mixture of admirable traits and character flaws, and Kenneth McCoy is no exception. His determination and survival powers might contrast to his feelings of inferiority about his family background. Discuss the following:

1. Trace and analyze situations when McCoy demonstrates his determination. Give specific examples to illustrate your analysis.

2. Trace and analyze McCoy's character flaws offering specific examples of these flaws in your discussion.

3. Discuss how you think McCoy's admirable traits helped him obtain a high rank in the military despite his background as a child. Have his flaws impacted his career at all? Do any of those under his command seem to notice these flaws? Who? How does the reader know this?

Essay Topic 3

At the conclusion of a novel, most readers either consciously or unconsciously engage in processing the book and usually come to a conclusion as to whether they like the book or not. Discuss one of the following:

1. Would you consider Corps 02: Call to Arms a "good" book? Why or why not? Use examples to illustrate your stance.

2. What do you think are the elements of an outstanding novel? Analyze one of your favorite novels to see if those elements are present.

3. What are some reasons you might consider a novel a failure? Analyze a novel you think is a failure and see if those elements are in that novel.

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