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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, Chapters 15-18.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. About what is Samson envious concerning Marlowe?
(a) That Marlowe has gone outside the wire several times.
(b) That Marlowe has a gorgeous wife.
(c) That Marlowe is close to the King.
(d) That Marlowe has three laying hens.

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

3. Why does the King seal the door to the cellblock after those who invited are inside?
(a) So other POWs don't smell the cooking and riot.
(b) To keep out nosey guards.
(c) To show the men where he is digging an escape tunnel.
(d) To show the men where the radio is hidden.

4. Why is Grey angry?
(a) At the fact that the King still eludes him.
(b) At the fact that Col. Brant upbraids him in front of enlisted men.
(c) That the Japanese camp commandant accuses Grey of patronizing the guards.
(d) At being assigned new duties.

5. What does King see in Marlowe's offer?
(a) A kindness the King does not deserve.
(b) An attempt to entrap the King.
(c) Commercial value.
(d) A catch somewhere.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the King surmise about Cheng?

3. Who is Lt. Grey?

4. How does Lt. Grey find the tampered weights?

5. What does Jones order Blakely to do?

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