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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, Chapter 35.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What magazine does Basie lend to Jim?
(a) "Reader's Digest."
(b) "Collier's."
(c) "Popular Mechanics."
(d) "Life."

2. What does Mr. Tulloch want to know if Jim saw at Nantao?
(a) Cars.
(b) American soldiers.
(c) Scotch whiskey.
(d) The atom bomb.

3. Over what does Jim have a confrontation with Mr. Vincent at the end of Part 2, Chapter 27?
(a) The pictures on his wall.
(b) The turtle.
(c) The size of his cubicle.
(d) Missing shoes.

4. What does Jim see when he is very hungry?
(a) His parents.
(b) Visions of full banquet tables.
(c) American aircraft.
(d) His old bedroom.

5. Of what is the man Jim sits next to on the E Block steps dying?
(a) Malaria.
(b) Beriberi.
(c) Whooping cough.
(d) Tuberculosis.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Jim initially rejected from going to the prison camp?

2. What possession of Mrs. Partridge's does Basie sell to Mrs. Blackburn?

3. What did Jim see at Nantao that impresses Lieutenant Price and Mr. Tulloch?

4. What does Jim tell Basie his father is really good at?

5. What is destroyed on the parade ground before the Chinese coolie is killed?

(see the answer key)

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