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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. How does Jim get into his house after leaving the hospital?
(a) He breaks a window.
(b) Through an unlocked window.
(c) Through the garbage compactor.
(d) He has a key.

2. In what does the Japanese soldier put water for the prisoners?
(a) A mess tin.
(b) A coffee cup.
(c) His canteen.
(d) A Coca-Cola bottle.

3. Which ship sinks into the Yangtze during the fight?
(a) The Petrel.
(b) The Wake.
(c) The Emilio Carlotta.
(d) The Idzumo.

4. Who is Vera?
(a) His father's secretary.
(b) The governess.
(c) A friend of his mother's.
(d) The cook.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who takes Jim's bicycle from him?

2. What does Frank have in the dinghy with him?

3. What is taken from Jim on his way from the hospital to his home?

4. What does Basie give Jim when he visits his cubicle the day of the air raid?

5. What are the English couple who joins the prisoners carrying?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Jim end up in the truck bound for Woosung?

2. Why does Jim regret throwing his case into the river?

3. What happens when Frank, Basie, and Jim drive into the western suburbs of Shanghai?

4. What does Jim learn from reading the magazines dropped by the Americans?

5. Why is Jim so excited about the prospect of being in "Life" magazine?

6. What does Jim find at the end of Part 3, Chapter 40?

7. What does Jim see just before he jumps from the blockhouse to retrieve his plane?

8. What is annoying Jim during the march to Nantao?

9. What has Jim's return to Shanghai after the war been like?

10. What is Jim's fascination with Vera's parents?

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