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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. Who is removed from platoon command?
(a) Potter
(b) Cortez
(c) Mandella
(d) Johnson

2. What does the company use to dig holes into the rocky surface of Charon?
(a) Toe lasers
(b) Nail files
(c) Finger lasers
(d) Shovels

3. What does Cortez order everyone to do at the beginning of this section?
(a) Relax
(b) Run
(c) Take cover
(d) Shoot

4. What rank does Mandella get promoted to in this chapter?
(a) Acting sergeant
(b) Acting captain
(c) Acting corporal
(d) Acting commander

5. What does Marygay say Mandella's grenades took out?
(a) Captain Stott
(b) A bunker
(c) Taurans
(d) A rabbit

Short Answer Questions

1. Which part of the Russian private's body is blown off?

2. What are the company's fighting suits set to?

3. What do the troops first learn to do in the suits?

4. What is spilling out of Marygay's body?

5. What does the company do after ten days on Charon?

Short Essay Questions

1. With what have the platoon commanders been pre-programmed?

2. What problems does Mandella voice about Potter at the beginning of Chapter 7?

3. How does Mandella almost damage his eyes in Chapter 7?

4. What are the students' responses to the film?

5. What are Cortez's feelings about killing the animals?

6. How have things changed at the beginning of Chapter 1, Part 2?

7. How have the Taurens improved their technology since the last meeting?

8. Why are the reasons for the army maintaining a strict level of discipline during their journey in Chapter 6?

9. How was Mandella a success in training in Chapter 7?

10. What has happened to Marygay at the beginning of Chapter 4, Part 2?

(see the answer keys)

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