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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What do Haughton and Forrest want Rickabee to do?
(a) Train more Raiders.
(b) Set up an organization to work with Coastwatchers.
(c) Go to Quantico.
(d) Join MacArthur.

3. What is Pickering going to watch in the Fiji Islands?
(a) Aircraft carriers learn to have planes land on their decks.
(b) A film featuring Galloway as a pilot.
(c) Rehearsals for Guadalcanal and Tulagi invasion.
(d) Nothing, Pickering is not in the Fiji Islands.

4. With whom is Charley Galloway when McInerney sees him?
(a) Two men in suits.
(b) Ellen Feller.
(c) Two attractive blonds.
(d) Deborah Hathaway.

5. Why does Pickering want Banning to be added to the Magic messages list?
(a) So Banning will know how to disperse his troops.
(b) In case Pickering gets killed.
(c) To ask him for insightful analysis.
(d) So Banning will know how important Pickering is.

6. How does the U.S. military know the Japanese plan to take several Pacific islands and Hawaii?
(a) Through the apprehension of a Japanese spy.
(b) Reading Japanese diplomatic messages.
(c) Through intelligence intercept.
(d) Through a defector.

7. Where does Pickering spend a few days with his wife?
(a) Mexico.
(b) San Diego.
(c) Los Angeles.
(d) Hawaii.

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

9. What is Ellen wearing when she opens the hotel door to Pickering's knock?
(a) Blue jeans and sweat shirt.
(b) A translucent dressing gown.
(c) A business suit.
(d) An evening gown.

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

11. What does McInerney want Galloway to do?
(a) Command a fighter squadron.
(b) Make another public relations film.
(c) Be transferred to Hawaii.
(d) Go to Pensacola.

12. Why do Koffler and Reeves have to kill all the Japanese?
(a) The Japanese are attacking them.
(b) To rescue a prisoner.
(c) So they can't report Koffler and Howard's jump.
(d) Because they are the enemy.

13. How did Macklin feel about ninety percent of his men volunteering?
(a) He was angry.
(b) He was ecstatic.
(c) He was indifferent.
(d) He felt it reflected badly on him.

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

15. What do the group at the Elms talk about when Koffler arrives?
(a) The mission.
(b) Barbara and Joe.
(c) Coastwatchers.
(d) Koffler's date that night.

Short Answer Questions

1. At what hotel is McInerney meeting with D. Franco?

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

3. What does the man from question #139 tell Banning?

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

5. Who does Stecker suggest for the Coastwatchers since McCoy declined?

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