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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where does Pick decide to stop while driving around Pensacola in Chapter VII?
(a) At Martha's house.
(b) At the grocery store.
(c) At the beach.
(d) At the golf course.

3. What is the medical reason for Captain Banning's injury?
(a) There is no medical basis for it.
(b) He was hit in the head.
(c) He has no injury.
(d) He is suffereing from the effects of malnutrition.

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

5. Where did McCoy leave Banning when he rescued him?
(a) At a hospital.
(b) At company headquarters.
(c) At a Catholic church.
(d) At at school.

6. Why does Ernie call Patricia Pickering?
(a) To find out Pick's mailing address.
(b) For help in finding a place to stay.
(c) To get a reference for a job.
(d) To see how Pick's father is doing.

7. What does McCoy ask Zimmerman to do in Chapter II?
(a) Get him some beer.
(b) Get him a better billet.
(c) Get him a transfer overseas.
(d) Walk Ernie home.

8. Who does Pick meet at breakfast?
(a) Martha Culhane.
(b) Susan Handly.
(c) Belinda Vichendorg.
(d) Nancy Scott.

9. In Chapter IX, with whom does Captain Stecker meet?
(a) Captain Tucker.
(b) Colonel Harris.
(c) Major Holmes.
(d) Lieutenant Johnson.

10. What is Stecker's new assignment?
(a) To help Colonel Carlson with the raiders.
(b) To spy on Colonel Wesley.
(c) To find out what Rickabee knows about Carlson.
(d) To see if McCoy is a traitor.

11. What does Patricia Pickering's husband say?
(a) She should meet Ernie at the train station.
(b) She should leave Ernie to her own choices.
(c) She should call Ernie's mother.
(d) She should get Ernie to stay with them.

12. What type of company does Ernie's father own?
(a) A five and dime store.
(b) A furniture chain.
(c) A Pharmaceutical products company.
(d) A motel chain.

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

14. How many Chinese did McCoy kill in Shanghai?
(a) Ten.
(b) Fourteen.
(c) Twenty.
(d) Seven.

15. What does Carlson think officers should do if enlisted men are sleeping on the ground?
(a) Sleep on the ground also.
(b) Give the enlisted men bedrolls.
(c) Sleep on cots.
(d) Get cots for the enlisted men.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did McCoy save the lives of several of his fellow soldiers?

2. What problem does Colonel Wesley want to solve?

3. What is an enlisted man who becomes an officer called in slang?

4. With what weapon did McCoy kill two Italian Marines?

5. About what does Martha give Pick a hard time?

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