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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 enraged The Bird?
(a) Prisoners refusing to commit suicide.
(b) American bomber raids.
(c) Prisoner resistance.
(d) Prisoner's pride.

2. What made an apperance shortly after Watanabe's departure from the camp?
(a) Better food.
(b) Games.
(c) New clothes,
(d) Red Cross packages.

3. What did the prisoners spot for the first time soon after Louis' trip outside the camp?
(a) A new Japanese battlecruiser.
(b) A small plane.
(c) A large plane.
(d) A Japanese tank.

4. How long had Louis been in Japan in Chapter 25?
(a) 15 months.
(b) 11 months.
(c) 17 months.
(d) 13 months.

5. Why did Lynn Moody recognize Louis?
(a) She dated him.
(b) She grew up on the same street.
(c) She went to USC with him.
(d) She saw him at a track meet.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Louis given to read in Chapter 26 when he went back to the radio station?

2. How did the prisoner know that something big happened in Chapter 31?

3. When did Cynthia first meet the Zanperini family?

4. What did the American troops do to Kwajalein?

5. What did Harris spend the summer of 1944 doing according to Chapter 22?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happened when Louis was invited back to the radio station in Chapter 26?

2. Why was Louis in high demand?

3. How did life change when Louis decided competing again was impossible according to Chapter 35?

4. What did the Bird do at the center of the camp?

5. What did the Japanese police do in Chapter 36?

6. What did a few prisoners plan in 1944 in Chapter 22?

7. Where were some of the prisoners sent in Chapter 27?

8. How did Watanabe change?

9. What happened after the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Chapter 31?

10. What was the graffiti described in Chapter 25 referring to?

(see the answer keys)

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