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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Watanabe settle at being in the remote mountain prefecture?
(a) A teacher.
(b) A janitor.
(c) A farm hand.
(d) A butcher.

2. What did the camp commander tell the men assembled in the camp?
(a) The war had ended.
(b) Japan was bombed.
(c) They would be transported to Tokyo.
(d) Germany had surrendered.

3. What did the POW learn in Chapter 29?
(a) Hiroshima was destroyed.
(b) The Russians took over Stalingrad.
(c) The landing in Normandy was successful.
(d) Germany had fallen.

4. What did Louis think Cynthia's parents found unacceptable?
(a) His religious background.
(b) His low education.
(c) His Italian ethnicity and middle class origin.
(d) His military past.

5. What was Louis in high demand for in Chapter 34?
(a) By military families wondering if he had seen their missing loved ones.
(b) Speaking engagements.
(c) Debreifing for the military.
(d) By authors wanting to write a book about him.

6. What was Louis given to read in Chapter 26 when he went back to the radio station?
(a) An anti-American text.
(b) A confession letter.
(c) A letter accusing fellow Americans.
(d) A letter of submission to the Emperor.

7. Who did Watanabe feel was the only one who could judge him?
(a) His commanding officer.
(b) God.
(c) The Emperor.
(d) Japanese tribunals.

8. What was Louis' reaction to seeing the B-29 writing on the wall?
(a) He didn't know what it was.
(b) He was envious to serve on one.
(c) He was dubious about their reported capacities.
(d) He was elated by the damage dealt to the Japanese.

9. What was the nickname of the Japanese prison medical officer that discovered Harris's plans?
(a) The Quack.
(b) The Shark.
(c) The Swan.
(d) The Beaver.

10. Approximately how many punches did each man take?
(a) 350.
(b) 220.
(c) 120.
(d) 240.

11. What was the American prisoners told not to seek?
(a) To contact their families.
(b) To go home on their own.
(c) Revenge.
(d) Their friends in other camp.

12. What was announced for 1948, 6 months after Louis' return from Japan?
(a) The next summer Olympics.
(b) A new Geneva Convention.
(c) Apartheid.
(d) The Cold War.

13. How high was the pile of wood made from the camp's fence?
(a) 60 feet.
(b) 45 feet.
(c) 50 feet.
(d) 20 feet.

14. Where was Watanabe in late 1948?
(a) Kyoto.
(b) Tokyo.
(c) Yokohama.
(d) Kobe.

15. What did John Falconer survive?
(a) The Shanghai Massacre.
(b) The Bataan Death March.
(c) The Oklahoma Sinking.
(d) The Burma disaster.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was transferred to Omori in Chapter 27?

2. Who heard of Watanabe's cruelty and put pressure on the military to remedy the situation?

3. How did the Naoetsu POWs leave the camp?

4. How often were local police departments told to report on their hunt for Watanabe?

5. What did Tinker find in camp?

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