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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 is the name of the company commander?

2. What does Jenkins wonder about Zim?

3. What does Rico's father not regard as an honor?

4. What is the penalty if Rico changes his mind?

5. What kind of people is the room that Rico lands in full of?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does a soldier use his facial muscles for inside a power suit?

2. Why are the bugs so difficult to fight?

3. How do the MIs respond to the loss of Breckenbridge?

4. What is Rico's opinion of boot camp in retrospect?

5. What is Rico's father's problem with Rico joining the army?

6. Describe Sergeant Zim.

7. Why does Rico find it difficult to adjust to army life?

8. Summarize Chapter 1.

9. What does Jejal tell his troops?

10. Describe the release of the capsules in Chapter 1.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why does the flogging have such an adverse affect on the other soldiers? Do the students think the flogging was as much to prove a point to everybody as it was to punish Hendrick? Do you think that Hendrick's conduct deserved such a punishment? Why did they not just throw him out of the army?

Essay Topic 2

In 1998 Starship Troopers was made into a film directed by Paul Verhoeven. How different is the film from the book? Why do you think Verhoeven changed the ideas from the book so much? Could he have successfully made a film that was more directly like the book?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss Heinlein's life. In what way do you think his life and personality is reflected in the book?

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