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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does the man in question #65 ask Stecker?
(a) If he will go to the Philippines as a spy.
(b) How well he knows McCoy.
(c) How he feels about Carlson and what he knows.
(d) Where his son is living.

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

4. What is an enlisted man who becomes an officer called in slang?
(a) High Stepper.
(b) Brown noser.
(c) Hot Dog.
(d) Mustang.

5. 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.

6. What problem does Colonel Wesley want to solve?
(a) The Colonel Carlson problem.
(b) The poor food in the mess hall.
(c) The lack of fighter pilot problem.
(d) The Major Johnson problem.

7. Why does McCoy take Ernie to see someone in Chapter VII?
(a) To convince her he's not good enough for her.
(b) So she will know someone he knows.
(c) So his family can see her.
(d) He has to stop for his duffle bag.

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

9. What does Martha's teasing make Pick do?
(a) Reconsider staying.
(b) Not speak to her.
(c) Dislike her.
(d) Leave.

10. With whom is Pickering best friends?
(a) Zimmerman and Kozonwski.
(b) Ernie and McCoy.
(c) Johnson and Banderly.
(d) Wesley and Rickabee.

11. Who took care of Banning after McCoy left him?
(a) A navy physician.
(b) A Filipino nurse.
(c) A Filipino farmer.
(d) An army medic.

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

13. What type of boat is the Pickerel?
(a) Submarine.
(b) Aircraft carrier.
(c) Transport ship.
(d) Battleship.

14. What does Pick find out when he arrives at his motel?
(a) His room is not ready.
(b) His uncle owns the motel.
(c) His father has been killed in action.
(d) His mother has called him.

15. Who would Ernie's mother like Ernie to marry?
(a) Zimmerman.
(b) Malcolm Pickering.
(c) McCoy.
(d) Koznowski.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was Captain Banning transported back to the states?

2. What does the hotel manager offer Pick?

3. Where does Pick decide to stop while driving around Pensacola in Chapter VII?

4. Where is McCoy taken to have his wounds checked out?

5. In Chapter IX, with whom does Captain Stecker meet?

(see the answer keys)

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