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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Basie trade at the market for fish and rice?

2. How does Jim get into his house after leaving the hospital?

3. Which ship sinks into the Yangtze during the fight?

4. How does Jim get into the dentist's house?

5. What is in the middle of the overgrown field?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What convinces Jim that the war is actually over?

3. What jobs does Jim do for Basie?

4. What does Jim tell Frank and Basie about his parents?

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

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

7. Why does Jim put his wooden crate into the water?

8. What is the "shadow film"?

9. What theory does Jim want to share with the Japanese?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In what ways does Jim identify more with the Japanese than with his fellow prisoners?

Essay Topic 2

In an essay, discuss the reasons Jim returns repeatedly to Lunghua.

Essay Topic 3

Using at least three examples, describe Jim's survival technique and how it transforms over the course of the story.

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