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  1. "The Enemy" was written by —
    1. Pearl S. Buck
    2. Alphonse Daudet
    3. Jack London
    4. Ernest Hemingway
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    Answer: (A) Pearl S. Buck

    It is by Pearl S. Buck, who won the Nobel Prize in 1938.

  2. Pearl S. Buck won the Nobel Prize for Literature in —
    1. 1932
    2. 1938
    3. 1945
    4. 1952
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    Answer: (B) 1938

    1938 — she was the first American woman to win it. The Pulitzer came in 1932.

  3. Dr Sadao Hoki is a —
    1. soldier
    2. surgeon
    3. fisherman
    4. teacher
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    Answer: (B) surgeon

    He is a distinguished Japanese surgeon, trained in America.

  4. Who is washed up on the beach near Sadao’s house?
    1. A Japanese fisherman
    2. A wounded American prisoner of war
    3. A Korean sailor
    4. A drowned child
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    Answer: (B) A wounded American prisoner of war

    A young white man with a gunshot wound in his back.

  5. How do the servants react to the wounded man?
    1. They help willingly
    2. They object and eventually leave
    3. They inform the police
    4. They attack him
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    Answer: (B) They object and eventually leave

    They think sheltering an enemy is wrong and dangerous, and all leave.

  6. Who assists Sadao during the operation?
    1. The gardener
    2. Hana, his wife
    3. The old cook
    4. A nurse from the hospital
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    Answer: (B) Hana, his wife

    Hana gives the anaesthetic, though she nearly faints at the sight of blood.

  7. What does the General promise to do?
    1. Arrest the American
    2. Send his private assassins to kill him
    3. Report Sadao to the police
    4. Give Sadao a medal
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    Answer: (B) Send his private assassins to kill him

    He offers to have the man killed quietly so that Sadao will not be blamed.

  8. Why do the assassins never come?
    1. Sadao bribed them
    2. The General forgot
    3. The American escaped first
    4. They were sent to the front
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    Answer: (B) The General forgot

    The General, ill and in pain, simply forgot the whole matter.

  9. How does Sadao finally get rid of the American?
    1. He hands him to the police
    2. He sends him by boat to a nearby island
    3. He hides him in the cellar
    4. He takes him to the hospital
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    Answer: (B) He sends him by boat to a nearby island

    He gives him a boat, food and his own clothes, and sends him to an uninhabited island.

  10. What signal was agreed between Sadao and the American?
    1. A fire on the beach
    2. A flashlight at night
    3. A white flag
    4. A bell
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    Answer: (B) A flashlight at night

    A flashlight if he needed more supplies. It never came, so he had escaped.

  11. The central conflict of the story is between —
    1. two armies
    2. a doctor’s duty and a patriot’s duty
    3. husband and wife
    4. rich and poor
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    Answer: (B) a doctor’s duty and a patriot’s duty

    Sadao must choose between saving life and serving his country in war.

  12. At the end of the story, Sadao —
    1. feels proud of himself
    2. cannot understand why he could not kill the man
    3. regrets saving him
    4. reports himself to the police
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    Answer: (B) cannot understand why he could not kill the man

    He remembers white faces he disliked and wonders at his own behaviour.

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