Shot Down
Author: John M. Curnow
Copyright: ©2006 by Pacific Press®
Readability level 9.0
Word Count: 72,723
224 pages
Section 1 Chapters 1-10
1. The British had their air force do most of the fighting because ______.
a. they had a small army / b. the army had had to leave their weaponsc. the fighting was going on too far away / d. the army wasn’t well-trained
2. John trained in South Africa because ______.
a. the airfields at home were needed for fighting / b. he had relatives therec. it had weather like England / d. he had been born there
3. A balloon ______is many balloons flown to protect a city from low flying planes.
a. army / b. barrage / c. cacophony / d. drone4. John was assigned to his first air group by ______.
a. his parents / b. Foggy Bottom / c. his captain / d. none of these5. John wanted revenge for ______.
a. the bombing of London and other cities / b. his parents being killedc. his ship being torpedoed / d. his leg being amputated
6. A “wold” is a ______.
a. airplane / b. bed / c. high wind-swept area / d. kind of gun7. As navigator, it was John’s job to ______.
a. fly the plane / b. drop the bombsc. plan where they were to go / d. take pictures
8. Any fighter pilot who said he was not afraid was ______.
a. awarded a medal / b. a fool or a liarc. given the toughest missions / d. unsafe
9. To “pancake” meant to ______.
a. drop your bombs / b. get shot down / c. land / d. take off10. The commander thought they had not actually bombed Berlin because ______.
a. they had no photos / b. they were back earlyc. no one had seen them / d. they flew in from a different direction
Shot Down
John M. Curnow
Copyright: ©2006 by Pacific Press®
Readability level 9.0
Word Count: 72,723
224 pages
Section 2Chapters 11-22
11. At the time John’s plane exploded, his mother was ______.
a. in church / b. on his bed / c. on the phone / d. going to visit him12. A big problem for John in the accident was losing his ______.
a. food / b. map / c. shoe / d. silver lighter13. They got a radio in prison by ______.
a. blackmailing a guard / b. smuggling it in food packagesc. stealing it from the Germans / d. trading it for phony information
14. John escaped by going over the barbed wire on a ______.
a. balloon / b. door / c. mattress / d. pole15. The French didn’t help John because they were ______.
a. afraid / b. allies of the Germans / c. enemies of England / d. all of these16. Frenchmen who worked with the Germans were called ______.
a. erks / b. goons / c. kriegies / d. quislings17. The German guards were called ______.
a. erks / b. goons / c. kriegies / d. quislings18. The ground crews that serviced the planes were called ______.
a. erks / b. goons / c. kriegies / d. quislings19. The prisoners called themselves ______.
a. erks / b. goons / c. kriegies / d. quislings20. John and Mason escaped by ______.
a. climbing a tree / b. dressing up as cooksc. digging a tunnel / d. hiding when the others were moved to a new camp
Shot Down
John M. Curnow
Copyright: ©2006 by Pacific Press®
Readability level 9.0
Word Count: 72,723
224 pages
Section 3Chapters 23-28
21. John did not stay in the RAF because his ______.
a. eyes were bad / b. energy was gone / c. legs were weak / d. all of these22. His father suggested he go to ______to work.
a. America / b. Canada / c. India / d. London23. He worked as a manager of a ______.
a. cattle ranch / b. merchant ship / c. tea plantation / d. winery24. John became a teetotaler, that is, someone who did not ______.
a. drink / b. eat meat / c. smoke / d. swear25. John learned about Adventists from ______
a. his girlfriend Bo Hing / b. reading the Signs of the Timesc. the radio program Voice of Prophecy / d. none of these
26. Lal’s union demanded that they ______.
a. fire Rajman of a rival union / b. receive more payc. take over the manager’s house / d. all of these
27. ______were with John and he faced the union mob.
a. Angels / b. RAF pilots / c. fierce dogs / d. Seik warriors28. He met his wife while on ______.
a. a cruise ship / b. furlough / c. a mission trip / d. a walk-about29. They began keeping their children inside when a ______was loose.
a. burglar / b. elephant / c. man-eating tiger / d. murderer30. As an Adventist John ______.
a. sold books / b. was principal of a high schoolc. worked for the blind / d. all of these