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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. Who learns that the policy of the officer is for the personnel to live off base with compensation?

2. Who congratulates McCoy and says he thinks he will make a fine officer?

3. Who stays with McCoy during Thanksgiving break like a loyal friend?

4. Where do McCoy and the girl eat?

5. Who has never seen Washington DC and therefore goes sightseeing?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Jack Stecker described in Chapter 9?

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

3. How does Banning get married to Ludmilla "officially"?

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

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

6. How does Sage initiate a romantic relationship with McCoy?

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

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

9. Why does Tommy apply to the Marines?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Describe Ernie. What is her role in the story? What was Griffin trying to accomplish by creating Ernie's character in the novel?

Essay Topic 3

Explain Griffin's use of humor in the book. Cite examples of at least two different instances of humor and explain why the author used them where he did.

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