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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. Where do Sessions, Zimmerman, Ellen, and McCoy take a car across a ferry ahead of the convoy?

2. What does Sessions say that he will not include in his military report about the artillery and the convoy trip?

3. From whom does McCoy learn about Japanese troop movements?

4. What is the name of the hotel that McCoy travels to meet Reverend Feller?

5. How much money does McCoy win at the poker game before he heads to the billet?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is McCoy upset about being sent back to the United States?

2. What happens to McCoy as he leaves the Mansion after gambling?

3. How does Banning reveal his trust in McCoy with Sessions?

4. Why does McCoy hesitate at first but eventually leaves for Norristown?

5. Why is McCoy trying to figure out if he needs a weapon to take with him to the Cathay Mansion?

6. Why is McCoy uncomfortable with Ellen on the trip to Peking?

7. How is Ellen described in Chapter 4?

8. What becomes obvious to Banning when Chatwick produces two coolies to testify on McCoy's behalf?

9. Why does McCoy know how to beat the car dealer at his own game?

10. Why does McCoy constantly seek out places where he can learn about the military activities of the Japanese?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Griffin uses more than one iteration on the motif of security. Identify at least two motifs about security and intelligence.

Essay Topic 2

Banning and McCoy are two of the most active characters in discussing their social and political beliefs and in the decision-making process for the military and espionage events that unfold in the book.

Part 1) What is their relationship? How do they co-exist and how do they interact? What is similar about them and what is different?

Part 2) What are some events that Banning had a direct influence upon? What are some events that McCoy had a direct influence upon?

Part 3) Which character offers support or sympathy to people that attempt to jump the Wall? Which one is stronger and why?

Essay Topic 3

Describe Ernie. What is her role in the story? What was Griffin trying to accomplish by creating Ernie's character in the novel?

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