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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Col. Smedly-Taylor ask Yoshima?
(a) About why the Americans are receiving a greater share of the portions.
(b) About what happened to Sgt. Masters.
(c) About better food and medicine.
(d) About how the war is going.

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

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

4. Of what is Grey accused?
(a) Conduct unbecoming an officer.
(b) Being out of uniform.
(c) Harrassing a civilian.
(d) Harrassing a man of higher rank.

5. Who is Sean?
(a) The camp cook.
(b) A cross-dresser.
(c) The camp idiot.
(d) A young boy who serves the officers.

6. What surprises King about Marlowe?
(a) He can speak many languages.
(b) He has several books in his possession.
(c) He is timid despite his size.
(d) He is an officer.

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

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

9. Who is sitting by Sgt. Masters when the Sgt. dies?
(a) Marlowe.
(b) The King.
(c) Lt. Grey.
(d) Col. Brant.

10. Who is Tex?
(a) The only Marine officer in the camp.
(b) The chaplain.
(c) The man who handles the legwork for the King.
(d) A guard.

11. What does Marlowe ask of King?
(a) To help the doctor.
(b) To befriend another enlisted man.
(c) To help the chaplain.
(d) A light for his cigarette.

12. What does Larkin say Australians need to do?
(a) Feel like men.
(b) Drink whiskey.
(c) Have geisha girls in the camp.
(d) Gamble.

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

14. For what do the Korean guards search?
(a) An illegal radio.
(b) Any contraband.
(c) Woman brought into the camp illegally.
(d) Illegal rations.

15. Why does Marlowe get the King in trouble in the first place?
(a) A love of danger.
(b) To see what sort of man the King is.
(c) He does not like the man.
(d) To irritate Lt. Grey.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Grey see the King do?

2. What does Marlowe find shady?

3. Who is Peter Marlowe?

4. How does Lt. Grey think of his wife?

5. Who may sit on the lone throne?

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