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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

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

3. Why does the King choose Timsen to reveal the rat operation to?
(a) He is the only Australian the King trusts.
(b) He was a butcher in his civilian life.
(c) He is not squeamish.
(d) He used to be in animal husbandry.

4. Why are the King and his cohorts having a hard time making more cages?
(a) Wire is in short supply.
(b) They are all weak from malaria.
(c) They don't have any more underground tunnels to put the cages in.
(d) They are being watched so carefully.

5. 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 will be invading within weeks.
(c) That the Allies dropped two atomic bombs on Japan.
(d) That Lt. Grey has incriminating evidence against them all.

6. Why does Lt. Grey place Marlowe under arrest?
(a) For selling a fountain pen to a Korean guard.
(b) For eating dog.
(c) For not distributing the coconuts fairly.
(d) For disobeying orders.

7. Who is meeting in the shadows with Prouty?
(a) Marlowe.
(b) The King.
(c) Samson.
(d) Grey.

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

9. What is the doctor's consolation to Marlowe if he has to amputate?
(a) He may still live.
(b) He is very fast since he's had a lot of practise.
(c) They have ether.
(d) There is a sterilizer.

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

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

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

13. How much do delivery, nurse and equipment cost to take care of Marlowe?
(a) 150 dollars.
(b) 500 dollars.
(c) 1000 dollars.
(d) 1500 dollars.

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

15. What does Shagata report?
(a) Cheng has been released and has the money.
(b) Cheng has been executed.
(c) Cheng has been exiled.
(d) Cheng is no longer interested in the deal.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much does the King take as his commission?

2. What does the doctor warn Marlowe about his arm?

3. About what is Samson envious concerning Marlowe?

4. What does Marlowe wonder about when he encounters Hawkins?

5. What does Marlowe recall as they are fumigating the bed?

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