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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jim see on the road by a burned out ammunition truck on the road to Nantao?
(a) A sack of potatoes.
(b) Other prisoners' luggage.
(c) A dead Chinese peasant.
(d) His turtle.

2. What does Mr. Tulloch want to know if Jim saw at Nantao?
(a) Scotch whiskey.
(b) The atom bomb.
(c) American soldiers.
(d) Cars.

3. In what country's uniforms are the soldiers who fire on the Communist village dressed?
(a) Korea.
(b) China.
(c) United States.
(d) Japan.

4. Who is shot as Jim is carrying his loot back to his hiding place?
(a) A British prisoner.
(b) The young pilot.
(c) Private Kimura.
(d) Basie.

5. On what does Mr. Maxted sit to rest in the approaches to Nantao?
(a) The stone foundation of a bombed-out house.
(b) The ground.
(c) The running board of a bombed vehicle.
(d) A tree stump.

6. What does Jim do to help himself fall asleep in the stadium?
(a) Recite poems to himself.
(b) Recite the Lord's Prayer.
(c) Conjugate Latin verbs.
(d) Count sheep.

7. What does Jim see the American and British sailors do on the steps of the Shanghai Club?
(a) Perform a short dance to "Yankee Doodle Dandy."
(b) Urinate.
(c) Moon the crowd.
(d) Sing the American national anthem.

8. What causes Jim to vomit?
(a) A cigarette.
(b) Powdered milk.
(c) Chocolate.
(d) Spam.

9. Where does Jim head to during Part 3, Chapter 40?
(a) Shanghai.
(b) Lunghua.
(c) Pootung.
(d) Nantao Stadium.

10. How many canisters do Price and the other manage to retrieve from the drop that occurs in Part 3, Chapter 35?
(a) None.
(b) Five.
(c) Two.
(d) One.

11. Who urges Jim to get up when the procession leaves the checkpoint?
(a) A Japanese soldier.
(b) Mr. Maxted.
(c) Dr. Ransome.
(d) Mrs. Philips.

12. Of what is Jim most afraid in the aftermath of the war?
(a) Nationalist armies.
(b) Basie and the bandits.
(c) The Japanese soldiers.
(d) The starving Chinese peasants.

13. What kind of vehicle arrives at Lunghua on Jim's third day back?
(a) A Jeep.
(b) An Opel truck.
(c) A Cadillac.
(d) A military tank.

14. What does Jim find in the canal outside the airfield?
(a) The body of a Japanese soldier.
(b) His turtle.
(c) A tennis racket.
(d) A cylinder of relief rations.

15. For how long does Jim follow the pilot?
(a) Half an hour.
(b) An hour.
(c) Two hours.
(d) Fifteen minutes.

Short Answer Questions

1. Into what type of plane's cockpit does Jim look?

2. How many people are in the bandits' Buick?

3. Where are the prisoners going?

4. What does the pilot hand to Jim?

5. What is Jim surprised to find is stained and cracked?

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