Summary and Analysis by Chapter

Chapters 17–18

dog tags metal identification pendants worn in duplicate and resembling dogs' identification tags; in addition to other information, they include blood type.

Marrakech a prominent city in, and former capital of, Morocco, in northwestern Africa.

dose of clap a case of gonorrhea, a sexually transmitted disease.

goldbrick to shirk one's duty through fakery; to malinger.

Euripedes (480–406 b.c.) tragedian of classical Athens. The highly educated Clevinger would be familiar with him.

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