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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What patriotic song is played on a loop on radios after the Bing Crosby signal?
(a) America the Beautiful.
(b) A Yankee Doodle Medley.
(c) Battle Hymn of the Republic.
(d) Stars and Stripes Forever.

2. When Billy Dillon and Inez Victor visit Paul Christian, how does Paul say his brother must be celebrating?
(a) Killing the fatted calf.
(b) Dancing in the street.
(c) Saying thanks to the lord.
(d) Breaking out the champagne.

3. To whom does Inez Victor send the telegram regarding "colors, moisture, heat..." obliquely mentioned at the beginning of the novel?
(a) Harry Victor.
(b) Paul Christian.
(c) Billy Dillon.
(d) Jessie Victor.

4. Whose housing development was Wendell Omura blocking?
(a) Jack Lovett's.
(b) Dwight Christian's.
(c) Paul Christian's.
(d) Dick Ziegler's.

5. Whose presence at the house does Billy Dillon not mention in his telling of events in the chapter?
(a) Jack Lovett.
(b) Jessie Victor.
(c) Harry Victor.
(d) Paul Christian.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of food does Paul Christian constantly mention eating as proof of his poverty?

2. Why does Paul Christian never go to trial?

3. What punishment is given the bodies of executed soldiers at the Schofield barracks?

4. According to news reports in Chapter 1, how is Paul Christian wounded?

5. What type of enterprise does Jack Lovett consider war?

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