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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many parties of prisoners walk out of the stadium?
(a) Two.
(b) One.
(c) Three.
(d) Four.

2. What does the Eurasian man offer Jim in exchange for the prisoners' jewelry?
(a) Rice.
(b) Potatoes.
(c) A ride into Shanghai.
(d) Security.

3. What does Jim find in the canal outside the airfield?
(a) A cylinder of relief rations.
(b) His turtle.
(c) A tennis racket.
(d) The body of a Japanese soldier.

4. What causes Jim to vomit?
(a) Spam.
(b) Chocolate.
(c) A cigarette.
(d) Powdered milk.

5. What is in the vehicle that arrives on Jim's third day back?
(a) A silver parachute canister.
(b) Dr. Ransome.
(c) A generator.
(d) American Marines.

6. What does Jim eat first after returning with his loot to his hiding place?
(a) Powdered milk.
(b) Tuna fish.
(c) Spam.
(d) Chocolate.

7. At the end of Part 3, Chapter 42, what is Jim watching in the river?
(a) A school of fish.
(b) An American dinghy.
(c) A child's coffin.
(d) A Chinese fishing boat.

8. What is in the canisters dropped from planes in Part 3, Chapter 40?
(a) Drinking water.
(b) Ammunition.
(c) Food.
(d) Medical supplies.

9. What is the young pilot in the airfield carrying?
(a) A fence post.
(b) A sword.
(c) A rifle.
(d) A baseball bat.

10. What does Jim do to help himself fall asleep in the stadium?
(a) Recite the Lord's Prayer.
(b) Conjugate Latin verbs.
(c) Count sheep.
(d) Recite poems to himself.

11. Which of these people does Jim decide he will not raise from the dead?
(a) Lieutenant Price.
(b) Basie.
(c) Dr. Ransome.
(d) Mrs. Vincent.

12. What is falling from the sky when Jim awakes at the beginning of Part 3, Chapter 32?
(a) Rain.
(b) Ashes.
(c) Snow.
(d) Hail.

13. Of what is Jim most afraid in the aftermath of the war?
(a) Nationalist armies.
(b) The starving Chinese peasants.
(c) Basie and the bandits.
(d) The Japanese soldiers.

14. What did Jim see at Nantao that impresses Lieutenant Price and Mr. Tulloch?
(a) Packards.
(b) The atom bomb.
(c) Fur coats.
(d) Cocktail bars.

15. Which of these is not something Jim sees in the cylinder?
(a) "Life."
(b) Cigarettes.
(c) Peanut butter.
(d) Chocolate.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Basie show Jim at the end of Part 3, Chapter 39?

2. Over what does Jim have to be refrained from fighting with a Japanese corporal?

3. What kind of plane does Jim try to hide in from the pilot?

4. Where does Mr. Maxted tell Jim they are going the night they walk out of Lunghua?

5. What building does Jim try to enter at the end of Part 3, Chapter 41?

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