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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Koffler get back to Melbourne after the funeral?
(a) He catches a ride in a convoy.
(b) He drives.
(c) He hops a military flight.
(d) On the train.

2. What is the name of Pickering's boat that used to be his Pacific Princess?
(a) Roosevelt's Folly.
(b) Japan's Fall.
(c) Germany's Terror.
(d) The President Milliard G. Fillmore.

3. What do the orders Barbara receives say?
(a) She is being shipped out.
(b) She is transferring to a hospital on the other side of town.
(c) She is being promoted.
(d) She is being reprimanded.

4. Why are Banning and Koffler flying to Australia ahead of the rest of the group?
(a) The others need more immunizations.
(b) Koffler will set up communications before the others come.
(c) Flight priorities.
(d) Koffler volunteered to go first.

5. What do MacArthur and Pickering decide about why the chain of command exists?
(a) It serves no real purpose.
(b) It was put in place by those who want power.
(c) It is often misused.
(d) It exists for a reason.

6. What does Pickering see as one of the limitations of the B-17 fighter?
(a) Their wing flex.
(b) Too high a center of gravity.
(c) Their accuracy in dropping bombs.
(d) Their range.

7. What did most of Pickering's first letter to Knox from Melbourne contain?
(a) About the situation in Hawaii.
(b) About forming a new flight wing.
(c) About the Coastwatchers.
(d) About MacArthur's safe transport to Melbourne.

8. What does Pickering give Banning for his operation?
(a) Night vision googles.
(b) A check for money.
(c) New uniforms.
(d) A new code book.

9. How did Pickering and MacArthur travel to Melbourne?
(a) On a battleship.
(b) Army transport ship.
(c) By train.
(d) By a commercial air flight.

10. What type of position does Colonel Goettge have in the Marines?
(a) Commander of a tank wing.
(b) Logistics and supply.
(c) Battalion Commander.
(d) Intelligence.

11. Who does Jack Stecker meet when he arrives in San Diego?
(a) Major Strand.
(b) John Marsh.
(c) Captain Harding.
(d) Ed Banning.

12. What does the man from question #139 tell Banning?
(a) Banning can go to the east coast.
(b) How Coastwatchers works.
(c) He will send his second in command to take over Banning's group.
(d) He will have to leave in three days.

13. Who is in Pickering's house when he arrives there on July 1?
(a) Jake Dillon.
(b) George Johnson.
(c) Bill Macklin.
(d) Joe Howard.

14. By what nickname is Lieutenant Hon Song Do known?
(a) Pluto.
(b) Slaps.
(c) Samurai.
(d) Shorty.

15. To where does MacArthur move his headquarters?
(a) Queenstown.
(b) Brisbane.
(c) Sidney.
(d) Melbourne.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of transportation did Koffler and the rest of Banning's group bring?

2. What is Ellen wearing when she opens the hotel door to Pickering's knock?

3. Where are Joe and Barbara going to have dinner?

4. How did Macklin feel about ninety percent of his men volunteering?

5. With whom of the Australian Navy does Banning meet?

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