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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of these is not a medicine Jim tells Basie is in Dr. Ransome's cabinet?
(a) Suppositories.
(b) Mercurochrome.
(c) Iodine.
(d) Penicillin.

2. What does Jim use to fertilize the garden?
(a) Cow manure.
(b) Fertilizer granules.
(c) Composted garbage.
(d) Human sewage.

3. Where does Jim sleep near the river?
(a) In the backseat of a taxi.
(b) In a beached rowboat.
(c) In a hotel lobby.
(d) On a bench.

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

5. Where is Jim during Chapter 5?
(a) The hospital.
(b) Home.
(c) The hotel.
(d) School.

6. Who prevents Jim and his fellow prisoners from entering the second camp they visit?
(a) Other British prisoners.
(b) Their driver.
(c) The Chinese army.
(d) The Japanese military guards.

7. Why does Jim's father leave the car?
(a) To help rescue the drowning sailors.
(b) To buy a newspaper.
(c) To clear a path through the crowd.
(d) To retrieve something he left in the hotel.

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

9. How does the truck Jim is in cross Soochow Creek?
(a) Over the new bridge.
(b) It is pushed by Japanese soldiers.
(c) On a ferry.
(d) It is driven through a shallow part of the creek.

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

11. Of what has Jim been dreaming lately?
(a) Airplanes.
(b) Being home in England.
(c) Christmas presents.
(d) War.

12. What is Dr. Ransome using to make insulation for the huts in camp?
(a) Aluminum foil.
(b) Cotton balls.
(c) Melted wax.
(d) Rubber tubing.

13. Who takes Jim's bicycle from him?
(a) The Maxteds' building's manager.
(b) Mr. Guerevitch.
(c) Japanese soldiers.
(d) A Chinese shopkeeper.

14. What has become the main currency of the camp?
(a) Condoms.
(b) Coins.
(c) Pens.
(d) Buttons.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does Jim tell Frank and Basie that he once met?

2. What does Private Kimura hold up in the creek to show his fellow soldier?

3. What does Jim see when he is very hungry?

4. Who does Jim tell the Vincents is the best teacher?

5. Where is the truck of prisoners headed?

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