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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

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

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

5. What does Lt. Grey want in Chapter 11?
(a) To be left alone.
(b) To take over Lt. Dexter's job.
(c) To go outside the wire to a geisha girl.
(d) To die.

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

7. Why does the King thank Sgt. Masters?
(a) To ask when some quinine might become available.
(b) For tipping the King off about Lt. Grey's message.
(c) For the wine the Sgt. gives the King.
(d) For helping the King recover from a bout of Malaria.

8. What is Rusa tikus?
(a) The code word for accessing the radio.
(b) The swear word that a captive Russian civilian uses all the time.
(c) The code word to the Korean guard who lets the King into the village.
(d) Rat meat.

9. Who may sit on the lone throne?
(a) Only Generals.
(b) Only Colonels.
(c) Any Major and above.
(d) Only officers.

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

11. What does Col. Kennedy want to know from the King?
(a) Why Sgt. Masters didn't get enough quinine in time.
(b) Why Lt. Grey keeps going to the enlisted latrines.
(c) What Marlowe is doing outside the wire.
(d) The secret of the King's health and success.

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

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

14. Who drinks quinine and then has nightmares?
(a) McCoy.
(b) Steven.
(c) Marlowe.
(d) Lt. Grey.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Grey feel defeated?

2. Of what does Grey say he has heard rumors?

3. What is a worse place than the Changi camp?

4. What secret does the King leak to the Australians?

5. What do three officers share after the rain?

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