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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4, Chapters 23-26.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do three officers share after the rain?
(a) An egg mixed in rice and a cigarette.
(b) Information from the wireless.
(c) Some illegal hooch.
(d) A rare cigar.

2. With whom do the King and Marlowe meet in the night?
(a) A man with six daughters.
(b) Col. Brant.
(c) A Buddhist monk.
(d) A Korean guard.

3. Why does the King choose Timsen to reveal the rat operation to?
(a) He is not squeamish.
(b) He was a butcher in his civilian life.
(c) He used to be in animal husbandry.
(d) He is the only Australian the King trusts.

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

5. Why does Grey feel defeated?
(a) Marlowe plays along with King's lie.
(b) Col. Brant has demoted him.
(c) He cannot beat the other men at cards.
(d) Col. Brant won't allow him to run the comissary.

Short Answer Questions

1. For what do the Korean guards search?

2. Who leads Marlowe and the King to the village?

3. Why does the King trip?

4. What does Marlowe recall as they are fumigating the bed?

5. How much does the King take as his commission?

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