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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, Chapter 35.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of these is not a task assigned to Jim by Basie?
(a) Fetching Basie's rations.
(b) Washing Basie's shirts.
(c) Boiling Basie's drinking water.
(d) Mending Basie's socks.

2. Where is the truck of prisoners headed?
(a) Beijing.
(b) Nagasaki.
(c) Woosung.
(d) Hong Kong.

3. What magazine does Basie lend to Jim?
(a) "Life."
(b) "Reader's Digest."
(c) "Popular Mechanics."
(d) "Collier's."

4. What did Jim see at Nantao that impresses Lieutenant Price and Mr. Tulloch?
(a) Cocktail bars.
(b) Fur coats.
(c) The atom bomb.
(d) Packards.

5. Which of these statements is not true of Mr. Tulloch?
(a) He is the chief mechanic at Packard in Shanghai.
(b) He is American.
(c) He is wearing a pistol and guarding the Lunghua gates the day the rations drop.
(d) He spent the war at Lunghua Camp.

Short Answer Questions

1. Over what does Jim have a confrontation with Mr. Vincent at the end of Part 2, Chapter 27?

2. Why is Jim initially rejected from going to the prison camp?

3. What possession of Mrs. Partridge's does Basie sell to Mrs. Blackburn?

4. How does Jim help Mrs. Blackburn?

5. What is destroyed on the parade ground before the Chinese coolie is killed?

(see the answer key)

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