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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. Who is Yang?
(a) The chauffeur.
(b) His father's secretary.
(c) The governess.
(d) A friend of his father's.

2. What does Jim take from the swimming pool?
(a) A coin.
(b) A toy soldier.
(c) One of Vera's hairclips.
(d) His mother's sunglasses.

3. What does Dr. Ransome want to buy from the Japanese at the camp?
(a) A goat.
(b) A newspaper.
(c) A radio.
(d) A cow.

4. Who is Mr. Guerevitch?
(a) The caretaker for the Shell Company compound.
(b) The doorman at the Maxteds' apartment building.
(c) One of his friend's fathers.
(d) A man who works for his father.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the "streets" in Lunghua Camp named for?

2. What is Dr. Ransome using to make insulation for the huts in camp?

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

4. What kind of homework is Jim doing for Dr. Ransome when the air-raid siren goes off?

5. Which of these is not something Jim did for entertainment in his first year at Lunghua Camp?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Jim being used by Basie's gang of bandits?

2. Describe Jim's ride out of Lunghua.

3. What does Jim find at the hospital on his return to Lunghua?

4. What does Jim do to pass the time in the empty houses where he stays?

5. Where does Jim go when he jumps out of his family's car as they are trying to leave the hotel?

6. How does Jim spend the three days he waits at home for his parents?

7. What does Jim learn about the war from the Eurasian man?

8. How does Jim make the Japanese soldiers at the railway line laugh?

9. When they arrive at their destination, what do the prisoners and their driver find?

10. How does Jim try to save Mr. Maxted?

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