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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. Where does McCoy change trains when he is thinking of leaving the Marine Corps?

2. Who is the used car salesman that McCoy wants to buy a car from?

3. What does McCoy board in Pearl Harbor for San Diego?

4. How many coolies surround Zimmerman and Sessions by the ferry?

5. When McCoy arrives at the Naval Yards, what is he listed as?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does McCoy know how to beat the car dealer at his own game?

2. After Ellen repudiates McCoy's affection, what does he vow?

3. How does Banning reveal his trust in McCoy with Sessions?

4. Why is McCoy upset about being sent back to the United States?

5. How is Ellen described in Chapter 4?

6. What happens when McCoy follows Sessions's advice to apply to become an officer?

7. Why does McCoy feel trapped in the Marine Corps due to the coming war?

8. Why is McCoy surprised to meet his captain in Philadelphia?

9. Why does McCoy hesitate at first but eventually leaves for Norristown?

10. What happens when Ellen visits McCoy in his room?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The Corps: Book 1 Semper Fi is written primarily in the third-person and omniscient point of view. Is this point of view more or less effective than telling the story from the first-person perspective of McCoy?

Essay Topic 2

Banning and McCoy are two of the most active characters in discussing their social and political beliefs and in the decision-making process for the military and espionage events that unfold in the book.

Part 1) What is their relationship? How do they co-exist and how do they interact? What is similar about them and what is different?

Part 2) What are some events that Banning had a direct influence upon? What are some events that McCoy had a direct influence upon?

Part 3) Which character offers support or sympathy to people that attempt to jump the Wall? Which one is stronger and why?

Essay Topic 3

Griffin discusses both patriotism and war vividly in The Corps: Book 1 Semper Fi. Find some examples in the book and discuss the effect of these topics on the character of Pickering.

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