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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 is Dr. Ransome using to make insulation for the huts in camp?

2. Who is Yang?

3. What kinds of planes attack the camp?

4. What is Jim's mother's costume for the party?

5. What possession of Mrs. Partridge's does Basie sell to Mrs. Blackburn?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why doesn't Jim walk toward Shanghai?

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

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

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

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

6. How does Jim get his shoes back?

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

8. Describe Basie's cubicle.

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

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

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

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

Essay Topic 3

In what ways does Jim identify more with the Japanese than with his fellow prisoners?

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