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Frederick Forsyth's "The Shepherd"

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Introduction:
"From the author of "Day of the Jackal" and "Odessa File" comes this novellette of an RAF pilot's Christmas Eve flight home."


1. What country, year and air station does the story begin from?
    Germany, 1957, Celle
    Israel, 1967, Tel Aviv
    France, 1962, Bourget
    Syria, 1974, Damascus


2. What jet does the pilot fly?
    Falcon
    Spitfire
    Vampire
    Camel


3. Where does the pilot plan to land?
    Lakenheath
    Plymouth
    Penzance
    Canterbury


4. What happens ten minutes into the pilot's flight?
    he runs into a UFO
    his compass and radio fail
    he runs out of fuel
    he flies into the 1890's


5. What does the pilot do first?
    bails out of his plane
    pray
    wet his pants
    slow his plane's speed


6. What's the second disaster that happens to the pilot?
    his engines fail
    fog blocks out the earth
    he goes blind
    he loses his oxygen


7. What manuevuer does the pilot adopt?
    fly upside down
    fly in small triangles
    fly backwards
    do the old mantra "om"


8. What plane appears from the fog to guide the pilot to safety?
    Sopwith Camel
    Autogiro
    F-118
    DeHavilland Mosquito


9. What letters are on the plane?
    JK
    XL
    EZ
    CD


10. What air station has the pilot landed at?
    Heathrow Airport
    RAF Minton
    Le Bourget Field
    RAF Merriam St. George


11. Who's the officer who greets the pilot?
    Squadron leader Peter D. Carter
    Flight Lieutenant Biggles
    Flight Lieutenant Marks
    Flight Lieutenant Harris


12. What the name of the station's mess steward?
    Sherman
    Harry
    Joe
    Oswald


13. What was the name of the pilot of the rescue airplane?
    Jerry King
    James Kensington
    Joe Keller
    John Kavanagh


14. What's so unusual about the pilot of the rescue aircraft?
    he died in 1943
    he's a cross-dresser
    he's an escapee from an asylum
    he's deaf


15. Who did Forsyth dedicate the story to?
    his wife Carole
    Dylan Thomas
    Truman Capote
    Charles Dickens


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