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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What report does Stecker tear up?
(a) Volunteer.
(b) Unsatisfactory behavior.
(c) Sessions call.
(d) Locomotion.

2. Who is waiting to see Stecker in his office when he returns from the shooting range?
(a) Banning.
(b) McCoy.
(c) Macklin.
(d) Pick.

3. What does McCoy find is hard to clean and decides that he will clean in his own way?
(a) A rifle.
(b) A box.
(c) A shoe.
(d) A handgun.

4. Who does Stecker befriend by the end of Chapter 9?
(a) Schuster.
(b) McCoy.
(c) Banning.
(d) Macklin.

5. What is Anne-Marie's husband's name?
(a) Mateo.
(b) Dutch.
(c) Brian.
(d) Bob.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the last week of the training course, what is the focus of the Platoon Leader course?

2. Whose parents watch the graduation ceremony at the Platoon Leader Course?

3. Who does Banning marry before leaving for the Philippines?

4. Who is from a very wealthy family that Pick tells McCoy about as they drive back to the base from New York City?

5. Where is the Assignments Branch of the government located?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is McCoy happy about his new assignment as courier?

2. Why is Pick upset with Intelligence regarding McCoy's reassignment and moving?

3. Why does Stecker want to help McCoy on the base?

4. Why is Pick assigned as junior aide-de-camp to General McInerney?

5. Why does McCoy advise Pick to not be too chummy at the Platoon Leader's Course?

6. How does Stecker realize that the trouble with the Garand rifle and the tests is not McCoy but due to Macklin?

7. Why does Tommy apply to the Marines?

8. How does Stecker act on McCoy's behalf at graduation?

9. When Macklin is being sent home by the Marines, how and why do they assign him as a mess officer?

10. How is Pick different from other Marines in his upbringing?

(see the answer keys)

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