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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the King do with the ring?
(a) Swallows it.
(b) Throws it as far as possible into the jungle.
(c) Gives it to Lt. Grey as a bribe.
(d) Hands it over to the Korean guards.

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

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

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

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

6. How much does the King actually get from the Korean guard?
(a) $1400.
(b) $1000.
(c) $1900.
(d) $2200.

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

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

9. What does the doctor warn Marlowe about his arm?
(a) This ligaments are torn.
(b) It could get grangrene.
(c) The muscle has atrophied.
(d) That it is not infected but could get that way soon.

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

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

12. How do Marlowe and Ewart fumigate the bed?
(a) With linseed oil.
(b) With petroleum.
(c) With fire.
(d) With a concoction made from bamboo roots.

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

14. About what is Ewart furious?
(a) That Lt. Grey spills Ewart's rations.
(b) Not knowing his family's fate.
(c) That Marlowe pretends he doesn't know Ewart.
(d) That McCoy tells a secret Ewart trusted him with.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who cleaned up Marlowe when he was first captured?

3. How does Lt. Grey find the tampered weights?

4. What false information does the King relay?

5. What does Smedly-Taylor offer Grey to appease him about the weights?

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