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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Louis and Cynthia marry?

2. In what month and year does Chapter 25 begin?

3. Where was the Omori POW camp located?

4. Where did the Bird make the men stand to strike each other's faces?

5. What did R. Hawkins drop before heading home?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where was Louis hospitalized in Chapter 33?

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

3. What had found its way to the Japanese royal family?

4. What meeting did Cynthia attend in Chapter 38?

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

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

7. Who was Cynthia Applewhite?

8. Why did Louis not strike back according to Chapter 24?

9. Why were some of the guards fearful?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the role of POW camps and the treatment received by the prisoners and what prisoners did in the camps.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss whether the United States needed to drop the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in order to end World War II.

Essay Topic 3

Examine the role that the Army Air Corps had in the Pacific Theater during World War II.

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