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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Col. Smedly-Taylor ask Yoshima?
(a) About how the war is going.
(b) About why the Americans are receiving a greater share of the portions.
(c) About what happened to Sgt. Masters.
(d) About better food and medicine.

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

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

4. What does Grey use Marlowe for concerning the diamond?
(a) As an assessor.
(b) As a middle man.
(c) As an investigator.
(d) As a prosecutor.

5. Why can't Marlowe sleep the night after the King talks with him about going outside the wire?
(a) He is afraid to go outside the wire.
(b) He keeps thinking about the voyage from Java.
(c) He is planning on how to take over the King's operations.
(d) He is too hot.

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

7. What is Maj. Barry asking King to sell?
(a) A Ronson cigarette lighter.
(b) Two packs of cigarettes.
(c) A pair of scissors.
(d) A switchblade.

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

9. What does Marlowe offer the King after eating King's eggs?
(a) A free night out in town.
(b) A machete.
(c) A Cuban cigar.
(d) Tobacco cured in the Javanese way.

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

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

12. 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.

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

14. What does Marlowe ask of King?
(a) To help the chaplain.
(b) To befriend another enlisted man.
(c) To help the doctor.
(d) A light for his cigarette.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Vexley's favorite topic in biology class?

2. Why does Larkin punish Pvt. Gurble?

3. Why does the King thank Sgt. Masters?

4. What surprises King about Marlowe?

5. Who does the King speak to across the compound?

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