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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Colonel Wesley think Carlson might want to do?
(a) Fight the Japanese more effectively.
(b) Make the Corps join the Chinese.
(c) Nothing, he doesn't know Carlson.
(d) Make the Corps become communist.

2. What is an enlisted man who becomes an officer called in slang?
(a) Hot Dog.
(b) High Stepper.
(c) Brown noser.
(d) Mustang.

3. Why was Captain Banning transported back to the states?
(a) To be promoted to major.
(b) His mother is dying.
(c) His brother was killed in Germany.
(d) Because he is blind.

4. How does Zimmerman feel about his assigned duty?
(a) He is wary about it.
(b) He is excited about it.
(c) He doesn't want to do it.
(d) He is afraid to do it.

5. Where did McCoy and her go after she met him at a party?
(a) To Central Park.
(b) To a Chinese restaurant.
(c) To the East River.
(d) To a Jewish Deli.

6. At what location was Mccoy wounded?
(a) Paris.
(b) Finland.
(c) Germany.
(d) Shanghai, China.

7. Who took care of Banning after McCoy left him?
(a) A Filipino farmer.
(b) An army medic.
(c) A Filipino nurse.
(d) A navy physician.

8. What type of boat is the Pickerel?
(a) Transport ship.
(b) Aircraft carrier.
(c) Battleship.
(d) Submarine.

9. What does Pick find out when he arrives at his motel?
(a) His father has been killed in action.
(b) His mother has called him.
(c) His uncle owns the motel.
(d) His room is not ready.

10. Why has Ernie brought McCoy home?
(a) To meet her sister.
(b) To meet her parents.
(c) To eat a home cooked meal.
(d) To fix a broken door.

11. What did McCoy tell Ernie when he called her in Chapter VI?
(a) He was being shipped to Europe.
(b) He was being shipped to San Diego.
(c) His brother had been shot down in England.
(d) He was going to ask her father for her hand.

12. When was Pick's first airplane ride?
(a) When he joined the military.
(b) It was when he was a child.
(c) He was seventeen.
(d) On his way overseas.

13. Where did McCoy save the lives of several of his fellow soldiers?
(a) In the Philippines.
(b) In Japan.
(c) In Shanghai.
(d) In Okinawa.

14. Who is Martha with when Pick and Stecker see her?
(a) Major Jones.
(b) Lieutenant Capson.
(c) Captain Wentworth.
(d) Captain Carstairs.

15. Who would Ernie's mother like Ernie to marry?
(a) Zimmerman.
(b) Malcolm Pickering.
(c) McCoy.
(d) Koznowski.

Short Answer Questions

1. With what does Mr. Pickering help Ernie?

2. What type of company does Ernie's father own?

3. What happens to McCoy during take off?

4. How does Ernie's mother feel about McCoy?

5. What do everyone who goes up with Pick in a plane think about his flying experience?

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