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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. Which ship sinks into the Yangtze during the fight?

3. Through what bombed-out city does the truck of prisoners from the detention center travel on its way to the camp?

4. Who is Vera?

5. What does Basie have a collection of in the shipyard?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does Jim hope that the English soldier who dies in the detention center has seen the American planes?

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

4. How does Jim lose his bicycle?

5. What does Jim tell Frank and Basie about his parents?

6. What appears at the gates to Lunghua Camp on Jim's third day back?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast Dr. Ransome and Basie as surrogate father figures for Jim. How are they different? What is the common thread?

Essay Topic 2

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.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the development and meaning of the image of flies through the novel.

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