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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 does Cummings feel is the nature of a woman?

2. In Part 2, Chapter 7, who finds the illicit whiskey?

3. In Part 2, Chapter 2, who does Mantelli send to Croft's platoon?

4. In what body of water is the island of Anopopei located?

5. How does Wilson control his wife?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Cummings begin to lose control of the men and what were his feeling about this?

2. How did Stanley get money before the war and what are the other men's reaction to this method?

3. What does Cummings write about in his secret journal?

4. As the men continue to trek up the mountain, what is their general physical condition?

5. Polack and Minetta discuss wearing dirty clothes. What are each man's thoughts on this?

6. In Part 2, Chapter 5, for the first time Croft realizes that he is afraid. What are the circumstances for this realization?

7. How does the narrator describe the quietness of the jungle?

8. Why do the men continue to march up the mountain despite their attempts and threats to quit?

9. Why is Gallagher upset with Wilson's reply to his wife's letter?

10. Through confusion and exhaustion, why does Martinez feel guilty in Part 3, Chapter 10?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The men were inundated with fighting, illness, death, and injury while on the island. These events seem to cause each man to think about his own life and his own chances of leaving the island alive.

1) What are some of the superstitions held by the men on the island?

2) Do these superstitions serve as a type of foreshadowing?

3) Explain your answer by providing examples.

Essay Topic 2

The following essay will be on the Inner conflict of Cummings. Write an essay to address the following questions.

1) Describe the inner conflict of Cummings.

2) How did Cummings deal with his own conflict.

3) Cummings kept this conflict private except in one instance with Hearn. Describe that instance and explain how Hearn's feelings toward Cummings changed.

4) Be the end of the story, had Cummings come to terms with his inner conflict?

Essay Topic 3

By the end of the book, the American troops learned that they had the advantage. Additionally, Cummings felt useless intelligence and incompetent men were the reason he did not feel successful. Were the reasons giving by Cummings for his feelings of failure justified? Explain you answer using examples from the book based on Cummings character and his actions.

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