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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Jim initially rejected from going to the prison camp?

2. Which of these is not a picture Jim has hanging on his wall?

3. What is being built at Lunghua Camp?

4. Who is Mr. Guerevitch?

5. What is in the middle of the overgrown field?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why doesn't Jim walk toward Shanghai?

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

5. Why did Jim quit the cubs?

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

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

8. What cheers Jim as he walks to the Lunghua Camp?

9. How does Jim get his shoes back?

10. Why is Jim so affected by the sight of the dead kamikaze pilot?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the significance of the young kamikaze pilot? At what point in the story does he first appear? What does he represent to Jim?

Essay Topic 2

At one point early in the novel, Jim realizes that kindness "counts for nothing." Using examples from the text, discuss whether this point is proved or disproved by the rest of the story.

Essay Topic 3

In an essay, discuss the reasons Jim returns repeatedly to Lunghua.

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