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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 did John do at his desk job?

2. Where did Kathy spend time with Harmon?

3. What does Calley say about the massacre?

4. What literary term describes the description of Kathy's return from her time with Harmon?

5. Who was Sandra Karra?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Tony Carbo tell John and Kathy on the night of the election?

2. Describe Kathy's feelings for Harmon, according to the narrator's hypothesis in Chapter 18.

3. What does sorcerer admit to in the evidence from the court martial hearings?

4. What does the narrator theorize in the hypothesis in Chapter 18?

5. Describe the relationship between John and Vinny Pearson in Chapter 23, "Where They Looked".

6. What does Eleanor Wade say about John's father's death and its effect on John?

7. Why did John reenlist after his first tour in Vietnam?

8. Describe the conversation Kathy and Tony Carbo have after John finds them gambling together.

9. Describe the night in Las Vegas when John found Kathy and Tony Carbo gambling.

10. What was the report about Robert T'Souvas?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does this book create its effect on the reader? Describe in detail how Tim O'Brien uses a combination of suspense and details to draw the reader in.

Essay Topic 2

What is missing from this book? What should have been covered or presented that was not? What is the effect of this absence? Describe an element that ought to have been covered, and explain why it would have made the book stronger.

Essay Topic 3

To what degree is this book internally consistent? How much does it follow the rules it lays out for its own unfolding?

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