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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Who promises to take care of the man in question #83?
(a) McCoy.
(b) Lt. Grey.
(c) Steven.
(d) Marlowe.

4. What is Grey to check in the ditch by Hut 16?
(a) A stash of hemp fibers for weaving.
(b) A can.
(c) A dead body.
(d) A stash of weed.

5. Where does Col. Kennedy go after talking with the King?
(a) Outside the wire.
(b) To the Korean guards to ask for more quinine.
(c) To attend another death.
(d) To talk with Col. Brant.

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

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

8. How does the King help McCoy?
(a) Cures his ankle ulcers.
(b) Takes him to visit a witch doctor outside the wire.
(c) Smuggles a letter out to his girlfriend.
(d) Gets him the insulin he needs.

9. What does King want Marlowe to do?
(a) Go with him outside the wire.
(b) Discipline two of the British airmen.
(c) Build a radio.
(d) Negotiate with Grey about the diamond.

10. What does Larkin tell Grey to do?
(a) File all the charges he wants.
(b) Forget the commendation.
(c) Release the men to him for discipline.
(d) There are no more slots for "two up."

11. Who learns to cook the weed gratis?
(a) Lt. Grey.
(b) Tex.
(c) King.
(d) Col. Brant.

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

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

14. What secret does the King leak to the Australians?
(a) About Lt. Grey's wife.
(b) About the rats.
(c) About the tobacco process.
(d) About the Korean guards.

15. How long is the first litter's gestation?
(a) 90 days.
(b) 7 days.
(c) 35 days.
(d) 22 days.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the King thank Sgt. Masters?

2. Where does the King want to set up a rat farm?

3. For what do the Korean guards search?

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

5. What does King offer Marlowe to join his payroll?

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