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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 is Jim during Chapter 5?

2. What does Jim use to fertilize the garden?

3. Who are the Lunghua Sophomores?

4. Who is Vera?

5. What exam is Jim supposed to take the day the fighting starts?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the "shadow film"?

2. What happens when the truck of prisoners arrives at the second internment camp?

3. Describe Jim's ride out of Lunghua.

4. What does Jim find when he returns to the Lunghua Camp at the end of Part 3, Chapter 41?

5. What does Jim see just before he jumps from the blockhouse to retrieve his plane?

6. What theory does Jim want to share with the Japanese?

7. Why is Jim so excited about the prospect of being in "Life" magazine?

8. How is Jim being used by Basie's gang of bandits?

9. How does Jim lose his bicycle?

10. When they arrive at their destination, what do the prisoners and their driver find?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss how Jim's reaction to violence changes over the course of the novel, both violence that he witnesses and experiences.

Essay Topic 2

What are Jim's views of death and how do they change over the course of the novel? Is he afraid of it? Or how does he feel?

Essay Topic 3

What is meant by the phrase, "even a few steps across a small room generated a separate war"? To whom is this phrase first applied and why?

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