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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. Why does the King panic at Marlowe's request?
(a) King does not believe in God.
(b) King is afraid of catching something in the infirmary.
(c) The lighter he has is not on his inventory.
(d) King has had a fight with the enlisted man in question.

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

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

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

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

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

13. 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.

14. Why have the rat breeders installed a trap door to the "kennels"?
(a) To keep the curious out.
(b) To keep the rats from digging out.
(c) To trap anyone trying to steal a rat couple.
(d) They decide not to install a trap door as it would be too apparent something was going on.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who learns to cook the weed gratis?

2. Who is Lt. Grey?

3. What is essential to the rat project?

4. What surprises King about Marlowe?

5. How does Lt. Grey think of his wife?

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