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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does the King speak to across the compound?
(a) Lt. Grey cannot ascertain.
(b) No one.
(c) Major Johnson.
(d) Captain Quigg.

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

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

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

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

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

7. How does Marlowe learn that the King has a temper?
(a) When the King gets angry at Max for a racist comment Max makes.
(b) When Capt. Brady turns in an enlisted man for a minor infraction.
(c) When Lt. Grey comes in to try to sniff out the diamond.
(d) When Col. Brant asks the King for extra quinine.

8. What is Daven doing?
(a) Raising rats.
(b) Working undercover for the Koreans.
(c) Working undercover for Grey.
(d) Working on the radio.

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

10. Who is Lt. Grey?
(a) The camp Provost marshal.
(b) The camp quartermaster.
(c) The camp doctor.
(d) The camp liaison.

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

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

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

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

15. What does Dr. Prudhomme announce?
(a) Two upcoming appendectomies.
(b) Two upcoming amputations.
(c) Another run-in with the Japanese doctor.
(d) Four more deaths.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. How does the King get Vexley talking about rat breeding?

4. What does Col. Kennedy want to know from the King?

5. What is Grey to check in the ditch by Hut 16?

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