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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where are Pick and the person from question #62 suppose to stay?
(a) In the officer's quarters.
(b) At a house near the beach.
(c) In a half finished room.
(d) In the non-commissioned officers' quarters.

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

3. What does the man in question #82 ask Pick and Stecker?
(a) To come to work late the next day.
(b) If they know Martha.
(c) To leave the place.
(d) To join him and Martha.

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. What does McCoy talk about with Ernie in Pennsylvania?
(a) His assignment about Carlson.
(b) His missing brother.
(c) His childhood.
(d) His war experiences.

7. When was Pick's first airplane ride?
(a) When he joined the military.
(b) On his way overseas.
(c) It was when he was a child.
(d) He was seventeen.

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

9. What does the flight instructor think about what Pick is eating?
(a) He thinks the spaghetti looks good.
(b) He loves oysters.
(c) He hates curry.
(d) It won't be good on his stomach.

10. Where does Pickering go for his flight training?
(a) Pensacola.
(b) Birmingham.
(c) Houston.
(d) Tinker Airforce Base.

11. What does McCoy allow the pilot to do after take off?
(a) Call in so an ambulance is waiting for them.
(b) Replace his bandages.
(c) Give him a shot of morphine.
(d) Replace the stiches that have come out.

12. What did McCoy tell Ernie when he called her in Chapter VI?
(a) He was going to ask her father for her hand.
(b) He was being shipped to San Diego.
(c) His brother had been shot down in England.
(d) He was being shipped to Europe.

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

14. What type of job in the military has Zimmerman never held?
(a) Drill instructor.
(b) Gunnery.
(c) Recruit transporter.
(d) Recruiter.

15. What do everyone who goes up with Pick in a plane think about his flying experience?
(a) They believe he is a beginner.
(b) They think he has flown before.
(c) They think he needs more.
(d) They don't have any opinion.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Zimmerman stationed with McCoy?

2. Who does Banning go to tell he is fine?

3. Why is Captain Banning depressed when he is on the Pickerel?

4. What did Pick do after he cleaned up in his hotel room?

5. What does Wesley lead Rickabee to believe?

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