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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For how long does Jim follow the pilot?
(a) Two hours.
(b) Half an hour.
(c) An hour.
(d) Fifteen minutes.

2. What kind of plane has fallen into a lagoon near the causeway?
(a) A Mustang.
(b) A B-29.
(c) A Zero.
(d) A Spitfire.

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

4. Who does Jim meet up with at the end of Part 3, Chapter 38?
(a) Basie.
(b) Dr. Ransome.
(c) His father.
(d) His mother.

5. What country's bombers do Jim and Basie watch drop silver canisters at the beginning of Part 3, Chapter 40?
(a) China.
(b) United States.
(c) Japan.
(d) Britain.

6. What type of airplane drops the parachutes?
(a) A Spitfire.
(b) A Zero.
(c) A Mustang.
(d) A Superfortress.

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

8. What building does Jim try to enter at the end of Part 3, Chapter 41?
(a) The Lunghua Camp hospital.
(b) Nantao Stadium.
(c) Lunghua Airfield's watchtower.
(d) His Amherst Avenue home.

9. Which of these is not something carried out of camp by a Japanese soldier?
(a) A gramophone.
(b) Hockey sticks.
(c) A baseball bat.
(d) Sneakers.

10. Where are the prisoners going?
(a) Soochow Central.
(b) Nantao.
(c) Woosung.
(d) Hungjao.

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

12. What has been set up in downtown Shanghai since the end of the war?
(a) A shantytown for refugees.
(b) Three cinema screens.
(c) A memorial for the Chinese soldiers who died fighting.
(d) An American football field.

13. Which of these statements is not true of Mr. Tulloch?
(a) He is American.
(b) He spent the war at Lunghua Camp.
(c) He is wearing a pistol and guarding the Lunghua gates the day the rations drop.
(d) He is the chief mechanic at Packard in Shanghai.

14. What is Jim surprised to find is stained and cracked?
(a) The walls of the stadium.
(b) The fence around his family's house.
(c) Lunghua's runway.
(d) The Buick's windshield.

15. Into what magazine does Basie tell Jim he will get his picture?
(a) "Time."
(b) "Reader's Digest."
(c) "Life."
(d) "McCall's."

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do Basie and the other bandits head to in Part 3, Chapter 40?

2. What does the Eurasian man offer Jim in exchange for the prisoners' jewelry?

3. Who urges Jim to get up when the procession leaves the checkpoint?

4. Where are the Britishers storing their cartons of relief rations?

5. How often do the rations arrive at Lunghua in July?

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