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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Lt. Grey find the tampered weights?
(a) He has one of the Korean guards check the weights.
(b) He takes the machines apart and checks the weights.
(c) He tortures one of the enlisted men who is serving the grain.
(d) He stumbles and knocks them over.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

12. To whom does Marlowe send coconuts?
(a) Sulina.
(b) Sutra.
(c) Yashima.
(d) Torusumi and Shoko.

13. What is McCoy so happy?
(a) He gets out of borehold detail to fix the radio.
(b) He receives a letter from his wife.
(c) He is given a field promotion.
(d) Marlowe gives him the capacitor and it works.

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

15. 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 the Allies dropped two atomic bombs on Japan.
(c) That they are about to eat Rover's hindquarters.
(d) That the Allies will be invading within weeks.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do Marlowe and Ewart fumigate the bed?

2. Who is meeting in the shadows with Prouty?

3. How much does the King give Prouty?

4. What does Sean refuse to do at first?

5. About what is Samson envious concerning Marlowe?

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