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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. How many destroyers unload supplies in Guadalcanal?
(a) 4.
(b) 8.
(c) 6.
(d) 10.

2. How is Moore supposed to transport the message to Major Banning?
(a) Using the phone.
(b) On paper.
(c) By remembering it.
(d) Using radio.

3. Who is Schneider's uncle?
(a) Admiral Wagam.
(b) Robert Bixby.
(c) Markus Knox.
(d) Calloway.

4. What group is the message Moore transported bad news for?
(a) The Second Marine Division.
(b) The First Marine Division.
(c) The Third Marine Division.
(d) The Fourth Marine Division.

5. Where does Chapter 14 open?
(a) Guadalcanal.
(b) Pearl Harbor.
(c) Washington, D.C.
(d) San Diego.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many messages does Hon bring to MacArthur?

2. What shocks the reader?

3. Where does Dailey meet with MacArthur?

4. Who does Lt Donnelly send to fetch Moore at the start of Chapter 11?

5. What does David Schneider have trouble understanding?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Stecker explain about Pickering?

2. What message do Naval officers give when they come to the beach?

3. What strict orders did Pickering receive that he neglects?

4. What does Vandergrift not understand?

5. What workaround are Pickering, Hon, and Banning guilty of and what could it mean for them?

6. Why is Dailey surprised in Chapter 14?

7. Why does Ellen sleep with John Moore in Chapter 17?

8. What do the Coastwatchers report from Buka Island?

9. Who is John writing to in Chapter 10 and what does he say?

10. What decision does Pickering make that might shock the reader?

(see the answer keys)

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