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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Marlowe offer the King after eating King's eggs?
(a) Tobacco cured in the Javanese way.
(b) A machete.
(c) A free night out in town.
(d) A Cuban cigar.

2. Of what does Steven complain?
(a) The way his clothes are scratching him.
(b) Overwork.
(c) The smells in the infirmary.
(d) The King's priviledges.

3. What do the conspirators wonder in Hut 16?
(a) If Marlowe can fix the transponder.
(b) Who betrays them.
(c) If Col. Brant will be moved to Ultram.
(d) If the King can get another radio crystal.

4. Where does the King want to set up a rat farm?
(a) In the officer's latrine area.
(b) In the slit trench under a hut.
(c) In an excavation under the Korean solders's barracks.
(d) In the jungle outside the wire.

5. On what does Grey splurge?
(a) A night sneaking out of the camp.
(b) A half cup of milk.
(c) A night with one of the geisha girls.
(d) A second cigarette for the day.

6. Of what does Grey say he has heard rumors?
(a) An allied invasion.
(b) A diamond in the camp.
(c) That they are to be given new clothing next week.
(d) An armistice.

7. How does the King help McCoy?
(a) Gets him the insulin he needs.
(b) Takes him to visit a witch doctor outside the wire.
(c) Cures his ankle ulcers.
(d) Smuggles a letter out to his girlfriend.

8. What fault does Col. Brant find with the King?
(a) Wearing a dirty uniform.
(b) Being late to formation.
(c) Flaunting his wealth.
(d) Harrassing the laundress.

9. What POW camp is Marlowe in before coming to Changi?
(a) Malay POW camps.
(b) Burma POW camps.
(c) Changi is his first time in a POW camp.
(d) Java POW camps.

10. Who promises to take care of the man in question #83?
(a) McCoy.
(b) Lt. Grey.
(c) Steven.
(d) Marlowe.

11. How does Lt. Grey think of his wife?
(a) As frigid.
(b) As oversexed.
(c) As the love of his life.
(d) As a rock in the storm.

12. Who is Peter Marlowe?
(a) A Marine colonel.
(b) The man speaking with the native.
(c) An Air Force general.
(d) A journalist.

13. What does Grey use Marlowe for concerning the diamond?
(a) As a middle man.
(b) As an assessor.
(c) As a prosecutor.
(d) As an investigator.

14. Why does the King panic at Marlowe's request?
(a) King does not believe in God.
(b) The lighter he has is not on his inventory.
(c) King is afraid of catching something in the infirmary.
(d) King has had a fight with the enlisted man in question.

15. What does Kurt bring in at the end of Chapter 10?
(a) A female rat he has captured.
(b) A Korean soldier who wants in on the rat business.
(c) A different breed of rats that may not carry the plague.
(d) A new prisoner who worked with rats in a medical lab.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lt. Grey want in Chapter 11?

2. Of what is Grey accused?

3. Who is Tex?

4. On what do the officers depend heavily for survival?

5. Who is sitting by Sgt. Masters when the Sgt. dies?

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