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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) Three.
(b) Four.
(c) One.
(d) Two.

2. Where are the Britishers storing their cartons of relief rations?
(a) The watchtower.
(b) D Block.
(c) The cell block.
(d) The guardhouse.

3. To whom does Jim give water while they are resting by the checkpoint?
(a) Dr. Ransome.
(b) Mrs. Philips.
(c) Mrs. Vincent.
(d) Mr. Maxted.

4. What does Jim see the American and British sailors do on the steps of the Shanghai Club?
(a) Urinate.
(b) Perform a short dance to "Yankee Doodle Dandy."
(c) Sing the American national anthem.
(d) Moon the crowd.

5. Who is killed in Part 3, Chapter 38?
(a) Lieutenant Price.
(b) Mr. Tulloch.
(c) Dr. Ransome.
(d) Basie.

6. How did the young Japanese kamikaze pilot die?
(a) He was beaten to death.
(b) He starved to death.
(c) He was shot.
(d) He was bayoneted.

7. Whose bunk does Jim lie down in to read a magazine after helping the Britishers unpack the canisters?
(a) His own.
(b) Mrs. Vincent's.
(c) Basie's.
(d) Mr. Maxted's.

8. What does the Eurasian man pull from the trash?
(a) Jim's Latin primer.
(b) Jim's shoes.
(c) Potatoes.
(d) A soldier's shirt.

9. Into what type of plane's cockpit does Jim look?
(a) A Hayate.
(b) A Zero.
(c) A Spitfire.
(d) A Mustang.

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

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

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

13. What magazine does Jim take from the cylinder to read?
(a) "Saturday Evening Post."
(b) "Reader's Digest."
(c) "Time."
(d) "Life."

14. Where does Mr. Maxted tell Jim they are going the night they walk out of Lunghua?
(a) Back to Lunghua.
(b) Shanghai.
(c) Up-country.
(d) Woosung.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which of these is not something Jim carries with him to Nantao in his wooden box?

3. Which of these people calls Jim "Jamie"?

4. What does Mr. Tulloch want to know if Jim saw at Nantao?

5. What kind of animal's carcass does Jim peer into on his walk back to Lunghua?

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