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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. About what is the King thinking when he spies a man talking with a native?
(a) Doing K.P.
(b) Selling the item for Major Barry.
(c) A diamond deal.
(d) Asking Col. Brant for a transfer.

2. About how many litters per year can the Rattus norvegicus have per year?
(a) Anywhere from 5-40 depending upon its individual fertility.
(b) 2-4.
(c) 30-35.
(d) 12.

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

4. What does Marlowe find shady?
(a) That Max has been outside the wire for several days now.
(b) That the Americans are dealing separately with the Koreans.
(c) That the Americans are dealing separately with the Japanese.
(d) The fact that the King leaked the secret.

5. Who is Lt. Grey summoning?
(a) The burser.
(b) The cook.
(c) The King.
(d) The laundress.

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

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

8. What POW camp is Marlowe in before coming to Changi?
(a) Java POW camps.
(b) Changi is his first time in a POW camp.
(c) Malay POW camps.
(d) Burma POW camps.

9. What are two potential problems in raising the rats?
(a) Snakes and flooding of the cages.
(b) Cannibalism and fighting.
(c) Snakes and stealing.
(d) Discovery and snakes.

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

11. Of what does Steven complain?
(a) The King's priviledges.
(b) The way his clothes are scratching him.
(c) Overwork.
(d) The smells in the infirmary.

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

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

14. What are Max, Tex and Marlowe doing at the opening of Chapter 9?
(a) Gathering bamboo shoots.
(b) Tying up Lt. Grey.
(c) Breeding pigeons.
(d) Trying to corner a rat.

15. Who is Peter Marlowe?
(a) The man speaking with the native.
(b) An Air Force general.
(c) A journalist.
(d) A Marine colonel.

Short Answer Questions

1. About what does Grey read?

2. What does Marlowe ask of King?

3. What is essential to the rat project?

4. Why does the King thank Sgt. Masters?

5. Why have the rat breeders installed a trap door to the "kennels"?

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