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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Marlowe recall as they are fumigating the bed?
(a) The first prison Marlowe was in.
(b) His young son and daughter.
(c) Why he was captured.
(d) His wife.

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

3. How does Marlowe injure his left arm?
(a) In a fight.
(b) He trips.
(c) On wood detail.
(d) A dog mauls him.

4. What does McCoy say to Larkin about Prouty?
(a) Veni, vidi, vici.
(b) Mea culpa.
(c) Habeaus Corpus.
(d) Caveat emptor.

5. What does the King explain to Marlowe in an effort to soothe Marlowe?
(a) That Prouty will be able to feed his group regardless.
(b) The risks and benefits of business.
(c) That the guard is going to rip someone else off with the same watch.
(d) That Prouty stole the watch anyway.

6. About what does Torusumi talk?
(a) That his wife would love the diamond.
(b) Home life and Koreans' hatred of the Japanese overlords.
(c) That if he cannot get the diamond, he will turn them in.
(d) That the Japanese plan to kill all the prisoners before the Japanese withdraw.

7. What does the King promise if Marlowe will go bury the money in the jungle?
(a) To save Marlowe's arm.
(b) To give him some of his bodyguards if needed.
(c) To give Marlowe half of the profits.
(d) To help him meet up with Sulina again.

8. What do some men wonder about Marlowe and the King?
(a) If they are lovers.
(b) If Marlowe has something on the King.
(c) If they will go into business together after the war.
(d) If the King is paying Marlowe.

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

10. About what does the King caution Marlowe?
(a) To translate to and from Malay very precisely.
(b) To make the guards understand even is Marlowe has to translate some things loosely.
(c) To not shake hands with Torusumi.
(d) To bow to Torusumi.

11. Why does the King seal the door to the cellblock after those who invited are inside?
(a) So other POWs don't smell the cooking and riot.
(b) To show the men where he is digging an escape tunnel.
(c) To show the men where the radio is hidden.
(d) To keep out nosey guards.

12. How much does Marlowe get for the sergeant's fountain pen?
(a) Only 120 dollars.
(b) 75 dollars and cigarettes.
(c) 120 dollars and cigarettes.
(d) Only 75 dollars.

13. What does Grey find on the King when he catches him?
(a) Nothing.
(b) A watch.
(c) A pipe.
(d) A couple dollars.

14. What is borehole detail?
(a) Cleaning out old boreholds and taking the contents to the jungle.
(b) Digging new boreholes.
(c) Checking to see that the boreholes are covered appropriately.
(d) Scooping cockroaches out of the latrines.

15. Why does the King slap Marlowe?
(a) To force him to concentrate.
(b) He is demonstrating a judo technique.
(c) It is an accident.
(d) He is angry with Marlowe.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who gets a letter from his wife?

2. Why does Larkin make a batch of blachang?

3. What false information does the King relay?

4. What is McCoy so happy?

5. What secret of Grey's does the King know?

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