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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who leads Marlowe and the King to the village?
(a) A young, pretty woman.
(b) No one.
(c) One of the Korean guards.
(d) An elderly peasant.

2. What does Shagata do?
(a) Take the ring and the money.
(b) Kills Tex by accident when Tex trips and falls against him.
(c) Tells them the deal is off.
(d) Authenticates the ring, hands over the money, and leaves.

3. About what does Smedly-Talyor laugh after Lt. Grey leaves?
(a) Grey arresting Marlowe.
(b) Grey being in the regular army.
(c) Grey thinking Smedly-Taylor is clean.
(d) Nothing; he is worried Grey will go over his head.

4. What does Timsen not guarantee?
(a) If he can find some quinine.
(b) If he can find the ring.
(c) If the doctor will agree.
(d) If the treatment will be effective.

5. What does Marlowe bargain out of Sutra?
(a) A hen.
(b) A radio.
(c) Nothing.
(d) A piglet.

6. What does Kennedy tell Marlowe?
(a) He can only wait a few more days before amutating.
(b) The arm looks as though it is getting better on its own.
(c) He has to amputate above the elbow that day or it will be too late.
(d) He can not longer operate as the arm is too far gone.

7. How long does Yoshima's staff search to find the new radio?
(a) 10 hours.
(b) 5 days.
(c) 1 day.
(d) 2 hours.

8. Where does Townsend get the ring?
(a) From Gurble on the day Gurble commits suicide.
(b) It is a family heirloom.
(c) From a dead soldier on the march to Changi.
(d) It was a gift he bought before being captured.

9. Who confronts the King and Marlowe after they go away from the MPs?
(a) Four men in masks with heavy sticks.
(b) A man with a mask and a small pistol.
(c) The Korean guards.
(d) Col. Brant.

10. Of what could Marlowe eventually die?
(a) Dengue fever.
(b) Ebola.
(c) Septimia.
(d) Toxemia.

11. Where does the King summon Marlowe, Larkin and McCoy?
(a) To watch a new play by Steven.
(b) To Cell 54.
(c) To lunch in his hut.
(d) To go outside the wire that night.

12. What does Marlowe believe about the war?
(a) It will never end.
(b) It is almost over.
(c) It will drag on for several more years.
(d) It no longer matters.

13. What does the King tell the officers that sobers them briefly as they are laughing and playing?
(a) That they are about to eat Rover's hindquarters.
(b) That the Allies dropped two atomic bombs on Japan.
(c) That the Allies will be invading within weeks.
(d) That Lt. Grey has incriminating evidence against them all.

14. What is the rumor about the airfield?
(a) That it is being abandoned so the Americans have no good place to land.
(b) It is going to be paved.
(c) It flooded in the last rain and is now full of pits and holes.
(d) That three coconut trees will be felled.

15. What does the King ask Timsen?
(a) Nothing.
(b) To get some antitoxin and sulfonamide powder.
(c) To cut in on the ring profits to find some quinine for Tex.
(d) To find the ring.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why are the King and his cohorts having a hard time making more cages?

2. What shocks Marlowe about Samson?

3. How do Marlowe, Larkin and McCoy decide to spread news about the war?

4. Who runs interference for King and Marlowe as they try to escape with the money?

5. What do some men wonder about Marlowe and the King?

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