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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who searches for Jim after the air raid?
(a) Private Kimura.
(b) Dr. Ransome.
(c) Mr. Maxted.
(d) Basie.

2. What does Jim's family's car run over on its way to the party?
(a) A jacket.
(b) A child's toy.
(c) A beggar's foot.
(d) A squirrel.

3. What homework does Dr. Ransome give Jim at the end of Part 2, Chapter 25?
(a) French.
(b) Algebra.
(c) Trigonometry.
(d) Chemistry.

4. Through what bombed-out city does the truck of prisoners from the detention center travel on its way to the camp?
(a) Tsingtao.
(b) Chapei.
(c) Woosung.
(d) Taipei.

5. What are the "streets" in Lunghua Camp named for?
(a) Shanghai streets.
(b) London landmarks.
(c) Foods.
(d) Famous authors.

6. Who are the Lunghua Sophomores?
(a) A singing group of women.
(b) The block leaders.
(c) A softball team.
(d) A group of young men who would be sophomores in college.

7. What is Jim's job with Frank and Basie?
(a) Polishing the brass portholes.
(b) Stealing food from the market.
(c) Taking the portholes from the ships.
(d) Being their lookout.

8. What does Jim retrieve for Mr. Maxted from the Japanese soldiers?
(a) Bottle caps.
(b) Paper scraps.
(c) Bits of soap.
(d) Cigarette butts.

9. Why does Jim's father leave the car?
(a) To buy a newspaper.
(b) To clear a path through the crowd.
(c) To help rescue the drowning sailors.
(d) To retrieve something he left in the hotel.

10. What surprises Jim in the trench near the blockhouse?
(a) Japanese soldiers.
(b) A fallen kite.
(c) A dog.
(d) Another child.

11. Of what is the man Jim sits next to on the E Block steps dying?
(a) Whooping cough.
(b) Beriberi.
(c) Malaria.
(d) Tuberculosis.

12. What does Basie give Jim when he visits his cubicle the day of the air raid?
(a) Chocolates.
(b) A new shirt.
(c) A watch.
(d) A sweet potato.

13. Where is Jim during Chapter 5?
(a) The hotel.
(b) School.
(c) The hospital.
(d) Home.

14. What does Jim find to eat in the dentist's house?
(a) Peanut butter.
(b) Pickles.
(c) Raisins.
(d) Condensed milk.

15. How does Jim help Mrs. Blackburn?
(a) He fetches her water.
(b) He washes out her mess tin for her.
(c) He helps with the fire.
(d) He babysits her children.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is being held at the internment camp at St. Francis Xavier seminary?

2. Of what has Jim been dreaming lately?

3. What does Jim take from the swimming pool?

4. What film is playing at the Cathay Theater?

5. What sort of public execution does Jim witness on his way from the hospital to his home?

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