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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4, Chapters 19-22.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does the King summon Marlowe, Larkin and McCoy?
(a) To go outside the wire that night.
(b) To watch a new play by Steven.
(c) To lunch in his hut.
(d) To Cell 54.

2. What does King want Marlowe to do?
(a) Discipline two of the British airmen.
(b) Negotiate with Grey about the diamond.
(c) Go with him outside the wire.
(d) Build a radio.

3. What does the King tell the officers that sobers them briefly as they are laughing and playing?
(a) That the Allies dropped two atomic bombs on Japan.
(b) That they are about to eat Rover's hindquarters.
(c) That Lt. Grey has incriminating evidence against them all.
(d) That the Allies will be invading within weeks.

4. How does Lt. Grey find the tampered weights?
(a) He stumbles and knocks them over.
(b) He has one of the Korean guards check the weights.
(c) He tortures one of the enlisted men who is serving the grain.
(d) He takes the machines apart and checks the weights.

5. What does King offer Marlowe to join his payroll?
(a) $50 a week.
(b) A geisha at his beck and call.
(c) One good meal a day.
(d) $20 a week.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who drinks quinine and then has nightmares?

2. What is the doctor's consolation to Marlowe if he has to amputate?

3. About what is the King thinking when he spies a man talking with a native?

4. How long is the first litter's gestation?

5. What does Col. Smedly-Taylor ask Yoshima?

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