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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 did the medics find the survivors?

2. What would the natives and the survivors had reenacted given the chance?

3. Where did Walter's father work?

4. What did the medics do for the survivors before treating them?

5. Who converged on the paratroopers as they landed?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Elsmore allow the press to do, and why was Walter restless in Chapter 20?

2. What were Margaret and McCollom horrified to find in Chapter 14?

3. What did the C-47 do at the start of Chapter 16?

4. What was Walters warned about, and what did his men practice in Chapter 15?

5. What did Walter begin to hope for according to Chapter 21?

6. What did the plane do in the morning according to Chapter 14?

7. What did Earl Walter Jr. speak of to his men in Chapter 13?

8. Who was Earl Walter Junior according to Chapter 10?

9. What did Earl Jr. think his father did?

10. What did the survivors do?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Examine the expectations of most women during the 1940's in America and discuss how Margaret broke free from this role.

Essay Topic 2

Compare the relationship between Margaret and Decker with that of Margaret and McCollom.

Essay Topic 3

Examine the role of paratroopers during World War II and examine Earl Walter's unit and the significance of their mission.

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