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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. Why is Lt. Grey summoning the person?
(a) For a tongue lashing.
(b) For an inventory.
(c) To get maps of the island.
(d) To ask about supplies that are to arrive.

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

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

11. To what does the King invite Marlowe?
(a) A planning session.
(b) A rat roast.
(c) A rich lunch.
(d) To go outside the wire.

12. With whom do the King and Marlowe meet in the night?
(a) A Korean guard.
(b) A man with six daughters.
(c) Col. Brant.
(d) A Buddhist monk.

13. What does the doctor rule as cause of death on Gurble?
(a) Heart attack.
(b) Malaria.
(c) Cholera.
(d) Suicide.

14. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What are two potential problems in raising the rats?

2. How does the King help McCoy?

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

4. In what language are the man and native speaking?

5. What is essential to the rat project?

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