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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. What does Jim use to fertilize the garden?

2. Who are the Lunghua Sophomores?

3. Over what does Jim have a confrontation with Mr. Vincent at the end of Part 2, Chapter 27?

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

5. Which of these is not a medicine Jim tells Basie is in Dr. Ransome's cabinet?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Jim's ride out of Lunghua.

2. What is the "shadow film"?

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

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

5. What convinces Jim that the war is actually over?

6. How does Jim spend his three days back at Lunghua Camp?

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

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

9. What happens when Frank, Basie, and Jim drive into the western suburbs of Shanghai?

10. Where does Jim go when he jumps out of his family's car as they are trying to leave the hotel?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The Chinese people are an ever-present image throughout the novel. Using at least three examples, discuss the implications of their frequent appearance in the story. At what places and times are they most apparent? Why?

Essay Topic 2

Using at least three examples, describe Jim's survival technique and how it transforms over the course of the story.

Essay Topic 3

Throughout the novel, Jim makes observations about the people of different nationalities; at one point, he compares the British people's apparent disdain for children to the Chinese people's enjoyment of them. Using at least three specific examples, discuss the veracity of Jim's comments.

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