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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the Marines plan to do with Charley Galloway?
(a) Discharge him.
(b) Court-martial him.
(c) Give him a medal.
(d) Send him to flight school.

2. To whom do the men schedule for the parachute public relations event report?
(a) Major Harris.
(b) Colonel Hershberger.
(c) Captain Johnson.
(d) Captain Stecker.

3. What happens to Charley when he lands?
(a) He is told to fly somewhere else.
(b) He is arrested.
(c) He is promoted.
(d) He doesn't land, he is shot down.

4. Why can't Howard be assigned to a troop?
(a) He is on leave.
(b) He hasn't been in the service long enough.
(c) He has been promoted as high as he can go.
(d) He's not going to basic school at Quantico.

5. What does Frank Knox want Pickering to do?
(a) Return to the Marines.
(b) Sell his fleet to the navy.
(c) Join the navy.
(d) Get commissioned as a naval officer.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Howard and Barbara Cotter decide to do when they meet near the store?

2. Why does Feller and Kramer go to see Pickering?

3. What does Stecker give Howard the night he is having dinner with Barbara?

4. Who picks Galloway and the men with him up at the base in Willow Grove?

5. What does Dianne tell Koffler?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Charley do when he puts together and aircraft, and what is the end result?

2. What happens when Galloway, Ward and Schneider are headed to Lakehurst?

3. Sum up the conversation between Pickering and Frank Knox, who Fowler brings to Pickering's motel room.

4. Where does Ellen Feller work and in what capacity?

5. What do Galloway and the others do at Ward's house?

6. Who is Franklin Neville and on what subject is he an expert? What has he written on the subject?

7. Why is Neville going to Lakehurst and what happens when he first arrives? What does he tell the pilot of the plane?

8. Where does Knox want Pickering to meet him and what happens when Pickering refuses? What does Knox ask Pickering about his statement in Washington?

9. In what service is Joe Howard, what award did he win, and what is his next assignment?

10. Why is Stephen Koffler at Lakehurst and what does the Navy keep there?

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