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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the only things destroyed in building the airstrip?
(a) Pine trees.
(b) Native homes.
(c) A church.
(d) Stone buildings.

2. The narrator becomes a courier for battle plans sent to _______________.
(a) The Phillippines.
(b) Pearl Harbor.
(c) Iwo Jima.
(d) Maui.

3. What is Harbison's job on the island?
(a) Recreation officer.
(b) Mess Hall officer.
(c) Military vehicles officer.
(d) Procurement officer.

4. Admiral Kester is the leader of the attack on the island of ____________.
(a) Kuralei.
(b) Hawaii.
(c) Bali Hai.
(d) Maui.

5. What type of tree is famous for growing on Norfolk Island?
(a) Starfruit.
(b) Willow.
(c) Pine.
(d) Oak.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose farm does the narrator and Tony Fry visit?

2. Who is the girl Tony Fry is having an affair with?

3. In "Alligator", U.S. Admirals plot an attack on the Japanese-held island of ______________.

4. What is the fate of the Remittance Man?

5. What type of disease does Joe get?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Captain Samuel Kelley and for what is he responsible in the "Alligator" operation?

2. What is the content of "The South Pacific" story?

3. Who is the Remittance Man?

4. What is Atabrine and why do the men fear its side effects?

5. What types of emotional angst does Nellie experience in this environment which is so different from her native Alabama?

6. Who is the woman who is the center of the story in "Our Heroine"?

7. What is a milk run?

8. What makes the narrator decide to postpone the decision to cut down the trees on Norfolk Island?

9. Why does Tony Fry not get along well with Lt. Commander Charlesworth?

10. Why are PT boats considered inadequate and what measures are put into place to help support them?

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