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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When does the King say he will pay Timsen?
(a) That night since Grey is watching things right now.
(b) After Marlowe shows signs of getting better.
(c) In a week.
(d) When Marlowe is well enough to lead him to the money.

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

4. What does Marlowe wonder about when he encounters Hawkins?
(a) If Hawkins knows his dog was eaten.
(b) If Hawkins plans any revenge.
(c) Why Hawkins is all beat up.
(d) If Hawkins cries about his dog.

5. What day is it at the opening to Chapter 6?
(a) The first day of Spring.
(b) May Day.
(c) V-E day.
(d) Memorial day.

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

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

9. What is the show called that Sean is about to premiere?
(a) Triangle.
(b) Circle.
(c) Shogun.
(d) King Rat.

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

11. How much does the King take as his commission?
(a) $75.
(b) $90.
(c) $450.
(d) $100.

12. What does the King surmise about Cheng?
(a) He is honest.
(b) He loves his family.
(c) He is hurting for cash.
(d) He is a liar.

13. What does Sean refuse to do at first?
(a) End his show when the guards arrive.
(b) Sing.
(c) Dress up as a woman.
(d) Go on stage.

14. What does Marlowe talk about to Sutra?
(a) The weather.
(b) Nothing.
(c) The delicious saki.
(d) The wireless.

15. How do Marlowe, Larkin and McCoy decide to spread news about the war?
(a) To call a meeting of the highest-ranking officers and let them decide.
(b) They decide not to say anything since things are not going that well.
(c) For each to tell two friends, who tell two friends.
(d) To trick the Korean guards into telling the news.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much does the King actually get from the Korean guard?

2. What has Grey learned from his spy about the diamond?

3. What does Grey find on the King when he catches him?

4. How long does Yoshima's staff search to find the new radio?

5. What does McCoy say to Larkin about Prouty?

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