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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 has Dr. Ransome advised Jim to eat?

2. What does Basie take from Jim?

3. Who are the Lunghua Sophomores?

4. What is being built at Lunghua Camp?

5. What person from his past has Jim met at the camp?

Short Essay Questions

1. What activity is taking place at Lunghua Camp when Jim first arrives?

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

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

4. What theory does Jim want to share with the Japanese?

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

6. What happens when the truck of prisoners arrives at the second internment camp?

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

8. Describe Basie's cubicle.

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

10. What does Jim see just before he jumps from the blockhouse to retrieve his plane?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Using at least three examples, discuss how Ballard uses planes throughout the story. Do different country's planes mean different things? Does their meaning change?

Essay Topic 2

How does Ballard use light to convey Jim's state of mind? What kinds of light does he see and at what points in the story?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the importance of this statement: "He had learned that having someone to care for was the same as being cared for by someone else."

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