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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Jim's job with Frank and Basie?
(a) Stealing food from the market.
(b) Taking the portholes from the ships.
(c) Being their lookout.
(d) Polishing the brass portholes.

2. What type of game did Dr. Ransome organize the previous winter?
(a) American football.
(b) Baseball.
(c) Soccer.
(d) Rugby.

3. What person from his past has Jim met at the camp?
(a) Vera.
(b) Dr. Longwood.
(c) Mr. Maxted.
(d) Mr. Guerevitch.

4. Whom does Jim tell Frank and Basie that he once met?
(a) President Roosevelt.
(b) Wang Ching Wei.
(c) Madame Sun Yat-sen.
(d) Chiang Kai-shek.

5. What does Basie have a collection of in the shipyard?
(a) Guns.
(b) Tires.
(c) Diamond rings.
(d) Gold teeth.

6. Why is Jim initially rejected from going to the prison camp?
(a) He is a great favorite of the sergeant in charge.
(b) He is needed to tend the fire.
(c) He begs not to go.
(d) He is too sick.

7. Who is being held at the internment camp at St. Francis Xavier seminary?
(a) British civilians.
(b) Chinese women and children.
(c) Orphans.
(d) Military personnel.

8. What has Dr. Ransome advised Jim to eat?
(a) Caterpillars.
(b) The weevils in the wheat.
(c) Any flies he can catch.
(d) Grass.

9. What homework does Dr. Ransome give Jim at the end of Part 2, Chapter 25?
(a) Chemistry.
(b) French.
(c) Algebra.
(d) Trigonometry.

10. What is in the ditch at the southern end of the airfield?
(a) A cannon.
(b) The hull of a submarine.
(c) A plane's fuselage.
(d) Shot-out targets.

11. From what country does Basie tell Jim some of the pilots were?
(a) Luxembourg.
(b) The Philippines.
(c) Thailand.
(d) Brazil.

12. How does Jim help Mrs. Blackburn?
(a) He helps with the fire.
(b) He washes out her mess tin for her.
(c) He fetches her water.
(d) He babysits her children.

13. Which of these is not something Jim did for entertainment in his first year at Lunghua Camp?
(a) Attended lectures.
(b) Helped to copy parts for "Macbeth."
(c) Moved scenery for "Pirates of Penzance."
(d) Acted in a play.

14. How does Jim get into his house after leaving the hospital?
(a) He breaks a window.
(b) He has a key.
(c) Through the garbage compactor.
(d) Through an unlocked window.

15. Where is the truck of prisoners headed?
(a) Hong Kong.
(b) Woosung.
(c) Nagasaki.
(d) Beijing.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Basie give Jim when he visits his cubicle the day of the air raid?

2. Who is Vera?

3. What do Jim and the other prisoners have to eat at the prison camp?

4. What exam is Jim supposed to take the day the fighting starts?

5. What kind of homework is Jim doing for Dr. Ransome when the air-raid siren goes off?

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