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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Into what kind of business does Pick want to go?
(a) He wants to open a chain of donut shops.
(b) Aviation.
(c) Men's clothing retail.
(d) Hotel business.

2. What does the hotel manager offer Pick?
(a) A ticket to a concert in the civic center.
(b) A discounted stay in the penthouse suite.
(c) A room looking over the ocean.
(d) Two free nights because he is military.

3. What do the Marines think is the first step to train a soldier?
(a) Make him feel needed.
(b) Make him feel comfortable.
(c) Get him to cry.
(d) Break him down.

4. Who does the man in question #76 take up first?
(a) Stecker.
(b) Pick.
(c) He takes them together.
(d) He takes Piper Lee, the other flight student first.

5. Who takes Stecker and Pick for their first flight?
(a) Lieutenant Capson.
(b) Captain Carstairs.
(c) Captain Wentworth.
(d) Major Jones.

6. With what does Mr. Pickering help Ernie?
(a) Finding a justice of the peace.
(b) Getting a job.
(c) Housing and cashing checks.
(d) Finding a good restaurant.

7. What does Banning decide to do if he has to leave the Corps?
(a) Become a doctor.
(b) Start a grocery business.
(c) Go into law.
(d) Kill himself.

8. What does Colonel Wesley think Carlson might want to do?
(a) Make the Corps become communist.
(b) Fight the Japanese more effectively.
(c) Nothing, he doesn't know Carlson.
(d) Make the Corps join the Chinese.

9. What does Ernie tell McCoy when she meets him in Chapter VII?
(a) She is going to arrange a better job for him.
(b) She will wait for him.
(c) She tells him she is going with him.
(d) She has joined the Marines.

10. How does McCoy feel about taking the assignment from Wesley?
(a) Not happy about it.
(b) Indifferent.
(c) Excited.
(d) Depressed.

11. What duty has Sergeant Zimmerman been assigned in sub-chapter 3?
(a) Moving new recruits.
(b) Tracking down a recruit who went AWOL.
(c) Escorting Colonel Wesley.
(d) Polishing all the brass in headquarters.

12. Why is Captain Banning depressed when he is on the Pickerel?
(a) His girlfriend left him.
(b) He may not be able to continue being in the Marines.
(c) His mother died.
(d) His best friend was killed in combat.

13. Who is the commander of the Pickerel?
(a) Lieutenant Commander George L. Johnson.
(b) Commander Peter "Sub" Redmond.
(c) Lieutenant Commander Edgar F. "Red" MacGregor.
(d) Captain Lewis Blackburn.

14. Where did McCoy save the lives of several of his fellow soldiers?
(a) In Okinawa.
(b) In the Philippines.
(c) In Shanghai.
(d) In Japan.

15. What does Wesley lead Rickabee to believe?
(a) That Carlson is insane.
(b) That Major Handle is a communist.
(c) That the Major General Commandant has asked for help.
(d) That Major Johnson is spying for the enemy.

Short Answer Questions

1. On what type of plane is he returning to the states?

2. What does Martha's teasing make Pick do?

3. How does Colonel Carlson use the name Killer McCoy?

4. Who would Ernie's mother like Ernie to marry?

5. What do Wesley and his group ask of McCoy about the meeting at the farmhouse?

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