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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Through what bombed-out city does the truck of prisoners from the detention center travel on its way to the camp?
(a) Tsingtao.
(b) Chapei.
(c) Taipei.
(d) Woosung.

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

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

4. What are the "streets" in Lunghua Camp named for?
(a) London landmarks.
(b) Famous authors.
(c) Shanghai streets.
(d) Foods.

5. What is the meaning of the shrill whistle Jim hears at the detention center?
(a) It's an air raid siren.
(b) It is time for their meal.
(c) Someone is trying to escape.
(d) The sergeant is calling a roll call.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Basie take from Jim?

2. From what country does Basie tell Jim some of the pilots were?

3. What homework does Dr. Ransome give Jim at the end of Part 2, Chapter 25?

4. How long was Jim in prison?

5. In what does the Japanese soldier put water for the prisoners?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Jim learn about the war from the Eurasian man?

2. What effects does the rumor that the Japanese will cut rations again have?

3. What does Jim believe the public execution of the Chinese coolie is intended to prove?

4. What has Jim's return to Shanghai after the war been like?

5. What does Jim find at the end of Part 3, Chapter 40?

6. Who does Jim hide from in the wild rice?

7. Why is there fighting still going on around Shanghai?

8. How did the prisoners react to the Japanese soldiers' withdrawal into the guardhouse?

9. When they arrive at their destination, what do the prisoners and their driver find?

10. What does Jim find at the hospital on his return to Lunghua?

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