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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Eve?
(a) The first female rat they breed.
(b) The name Steven calls himself in his latest play.
(c) The code word for the breeding project.
(d) No one knows who Eve is; the word just appears on a hut wall one day.

2. Who reprimands both Lt. Grey and the man he summons?
(a) Col. Bird.
(b) Captain Quigg.
(c) Major Johnson.
(d) Col. Brant.

3. What is Maj. Barry asking King to sell?
(a) A pair of scissors.
(b) A switchblade.
(c) A Ronson cigarette lighter.
(d) Two packs of cigarettes.

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

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

6. How soon can a newly-born rat breed?
(a) Within 2 months.
(b) At about a year of age.
(c) At 6 months.
(d) Anywhere from 1-5 months.

7. What does Grey see the King do?
(a) Hand off the diamond to a Korean guard.
(b) Sell a watch illegally.
(c) Meet the Korean guard Turasan.
(d) Buy some smuggled goods.

8. 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.

9. What does Grey tell Larkin?
(a) That Grey wants to join the next group of "two up."
(b) That Grey has arrested two of Larkin's men for gambling.
(c) That Grey is filing charges against Larkin.
(d) That Grey is putting Larkin in for a commendation.

10. What happens to Daven and Cox?
(a) They are flogged.
(b) They are executed.
(c) They are hung in stocks for five days.
(d) They are sent to Ultram Road Jail.

11. 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.

12. Who leads a raid?
(a) Col. Brant.
(b) Lt. Grey.
(c) Major Barry.
(d) Capt. Brough.

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

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

15. In what language are the man and native speaking?
(a) Indonesian.
(b) Malay.
(c) Chinese.
(d) Japanese.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Tex?

2. What does Grey use Marlowe for concerning the diamond?

3. Who drinks quinine and then has nightmares?

4. What does the doctor rule as cause of death on Gurble?

5. Who does the King summon into his hut?

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