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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. What is spilled on the floor of Jim's mother's room?
(a) Hairpins.
(b) Perfume.
(c) Her jewelry case.
(d) Talcum powder.

2. What does Dr. Ransome want to buy from the Japanese at the camp?
(a) A newspaper.
(b) A radio.
(c) A goat.
(d) A cow.

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

4. What exam is Jim supposed to take the day the fighting starts?
(a) History.
(b) Scripture.
(c) Math.
(d) Spelling.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is the truck of prisoners headed?

2. What does Jim find to eat in the dentist's house?

3. In what place does this story open?

4. What is the name of the British ship anchored near the hotel?

5. Who joins Jim at the detention center?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Jim get his shoes back?

2. How does Jim lose his bicycle?

3. What does Jim find when he get to his home on Amherst Avenue?

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

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

6. What does Jim learn from reading the magazines dropped by the Americans?

7. Describe Basie's cubicle.

8. What does Jim find when he returns to the Lunghua Camp at the end of Part 3, Chapter 41?

9. What changes does Jim notice in Shanghai when he ventures back out from the Maxteds' apartment?

10. Describe Jim's trip home from the Cathedral.

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