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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who confronts Hon about Moore?
(a) A Major.
(b) A Lieutenant.
(c) A First Sergeant.
(d) A Colonel.

2. What does Pickering's message say about his intention towards the Marines on Guadalcanal?
(a) He wants reinforcements for them.
(b) He wants to support them from afar.
(c) He wants to leave the Island.
(d) He will stay with them.

3. Who does Pickering leave in charge of his team?
(a) Moore.
(b) His secretary.
(c) Banning.
(d) Hon.

4. What shocks the reader?
(a) Pickering's decision to fly solo.
(b) Pickering's decision to leave.
(c) Pickering's choice of a replacement.
(d) Pickering's decision to go to battle.

5. Who do Hon and Moore discuss the coldness of?
(a) Pickering.
(b) MacArthur.
(c) Nimitz.
(d) Ellen.

6. Who can Ellen not reach at the end of Chapter 17?
(a) Banning.
(b) Moore.
(c) Dailey.
(d) Pickering.

7. What does Pickering call upon to rationalize his behavior?
(a) Marine lore.
(b) His conscience.
(c) Army lore.
(d) Navy lore.

8. Why do the Marines at Guadalcanal feel abandoned?
(a) The US Navy pulls off the island.
(b) Their dead officers are not replaced.
(c) They don't have maps of the area.
(d) The US Air Force stop its bombing run.

9. What do Hon and his team try to determine from the message intercepted from the Japanese?
(a) Who sent it.
(b) How many troops are sent to Guadalcanal.
(c) If the Japanese know where their fleet is.
(d) Where Yamamoto is.

10. Where is Ellen Feller at the start of Chapter 17?
(a) In John Moore's bed.
(b) In her room.
(c) In a restaurant.
(d) In a pool.

11. What happens during the Guadalcanal landing of the troops?
(a) The Marines take heavy fire and stay on the beach.
(b) The Marines meet heavy fire, but push towards the air field.
(c) The Marines meet little resistance.
(d) The Marines reembarque after taking significant casualty.

12. Where is Fowler's office?
(a) The US senate building.
(b) The Foster Lafayette Hotel.
(c) The Pentagon.
(d) The Capitol.

13. What does Vandergrift order at the start of Chapter 16?
(a) That everyone leave the island.
(b) That Pickering be given carte blanche.
(c) That no intelligence officer be put in harm's way.
(d) That Pickering be arrested.

14. Where does Moore show Ellen the message he received?
(a) At a restaurant.
(b) Headquarters.
(c) In his hotel.
(d) At Water Lily Cottage.

15. What does the first plane landing on Guadalcanal leave the island with?
(a) Intelligence.
(b) Two wounded soldiers.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Letters from soldiers.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who gets drunk during the meeting in Chapter 10?

2. Where is Moore approached by Colonel Dailey?

3. What are the aviators' feelings toward David Schneider according to Chapter 13?

4. Who is being considered as replacements to Goettge, Cory and Ringer?

5. Who is Moore writing a letter to in Chapter 10?

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