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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did John Sidney McCain Sr. do in school?
(a) He was average academically.
(b) He did not do well in school.
(c) He was valedictorian.
(d) He was suspended for his grades.

2. What was education for Navy families like?
(a) Focused on global history.
(b) Eclectic.
(c) Strict.
(d) Focused on American history.

3. What was the USS Gunnel supposed to do after its mission?
(a) Head to safety.
(b) Open fire on Britain.
(c) Head to Pearl Harbor.
(d) Lower its flag.

4. What did Captain Hart give John demerits for?
(a) Minor infractions.
(b) Wreaking major havoc.
(c) Everything he did.
(d) Nothing.

5. Jack served as second in command on the USS St. Paul in which war?
(a) World War II.
(b) Korean War.
(c) World War I.
(d) The Vietnam War.

6. What two factors contribute to a student's class standing?
(a) Academic performance and grease grade.
(b) Academic performance and lineage.
(c) Grease grade and neatness.
(d) Neatness and academic performance.

7. Who was John's main teacher?
(a) His grandfather.
(b) A priest.
(c) His mother.
(d) His father.

8. How deep did the USS Gunnel submerge when surrounded by the seven Japanese freighters?
(a) 3,000 feet.
(b) 50 feet.
(c) It didn't submerge.
(d) 300 feet.

9. What amphibious assault did Jack command?
(a) Operation Camargue.
(b) Operation Steel Pike 1.
(c) Operation Chromite.
(d) Operation Balavegaya.

10. How did John McCain remember his grandfather?
(a) As a remote stranger.
(b) As a hero.
(c) As a small man that lived large.
(d) As an autocratic presence.

11. What did John Sidney McCain Sr do in the Second World War?
(a) He commanded a submarine.
(b) He finished school and joined the Navy.
(c) He commanded all the land-based aircraft operations in the South Pacific for five months
(d) He became a pilot.

12. Who helped prepare John for the Academy?
(a) His father.
(b) The teachers at the public school.
(c) The teachers at Episcopal High School.
(d) His mother.

13. Why did John go back to his old ways?
(a) He was bullied and oppressed.
(b) He wanted to prove something to his father.
(c) Captain Hart put him at the bottom of the class.
(d) He felt like a failure.

14. John Sidney McCain Sr. was the first McCain to do what?
(a) Choose Navy over Army.
(b) Choose Army over Navy.
(c) Get an education.
(d) Win a medal.

15. How did John relate to the bully later in life?
(a) He realized he, too, had been a bully.
(b) They became close friends.
(c) He apologized to the bully and they became tentative friends.
(d) He felt a connection since they both tried to please their fathers.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did John feel about the Academy when he first arrived there?

2. Who taught John how to command a ship?

3. How much oxygen did the USS Gunnel have when it resurfaced after being deeply submerged when the Japanese were around?

4. How did Roberta McCain's parents feel about John Sidney McCain Jr.?

5. How did Jack feel about the men serving under him?

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