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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. Who is the 22-year-old nurse that Harbison started to date?
(a) Nellie Forbush.
(b) Maggie Sampson.
(c) Lee Stern.
(d) Sally Quinn.

2. During what time period does the narrator spend time in the South Pacific?
(a) World War II.
(b) Gulf War.
(c) Korean War.
(d) Vietnam War.

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

4. Why does Harbison tell the woman in #33 that he could not marry her after the war?
(a) He never wanted to get married.
(b) He was already married.
(c) He was gay.
(d) He didn't love her.

5. Where is the narrator sent in April of 1942?
(a) The Phillippines.
(b) Aleutian Islands.
(c) Bora Bora.
(d) Vanicoro Island.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Nellie upset about Emile's half-Polynesian daughters?

2. What is the nickname for the passage to Guadalcanal?

3. Who does Nellie ultimately decide to marry?

4. What puts Harbison in a bad mood and makes him break up with the woman in #31?

5. Who is the Seabee who helped Joe find girls?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the narrator's job on Norfolk Island and what does he see as an impediment?

2. What is Tony Fry known for because there is so much down time on the islands?

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

4. Why does Joe face a court martial over the incident regarding mosquito netting?

5. What is the condition of the men in the "Coral Sea" story?

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

7. Who is Ensign Bill Harbison and what is his role?

8. What is a milk run?

9. Who is Dinah Culbert and what is her relationship to Bill Harbison?

10. What is the content of the "Coral Sea" story?

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