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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 25-28.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happened after John Sidney McCain Sr. made a decision during a typhoon?
(a) He was promoted.
(b) He was ordered to relinquish his command.
(c) He was told to share his command.
(d) He was given a medal.

2. Where did Jack ask to have his change of command ceremony?
(a) In a private ceremony in his living room.
(b) In Hanoi.
(c) On the USS Oriskany.
(d) Back in the United States.

3. In what area did John's interests lie?
(a) The Surface Navy.
(b) Submarines.
(c) Cartography.
(d) Naval Aviation.

4. What was John Sidney McCain Sr. supposed to avoid doing with his grandson?
(a) He wasn't supposed to coddle his grandson.
(b) He wasn't supposed to watch his grandson alone.
(c) He was supposed to avoid all talk of war around his grandson.
(d) He wasn't supposed to talk with his grandson.

5. What was the result of having a famous father for John?
(a) He was treated more harsly than other prisoners.
(b) He was treated better than other prisoners.
(c) He was able to eat with the enemy.
(d) He was released.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did John do during the Christmas Eve service in 1968?

2. How did the guards react to the classes the soldiers gave each other?

3. What could the men still do from their solitary cells at first?

4. What did John Sidney McCain Sr do in the Second World War?

5. Why did the Vietnamese take John to the hospital?

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