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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay 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 tortures one of the enlisted men who is serving the grain.
(c) He takes the machines apart and checks the weights.
(d) He stumbles and knocks them over.

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

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

4. What is the rumor about the airfield?
(a) It is going to be paved.
(b) That it is being abandoned so the Americans have no good place to land.
(c) That three coconut trees will be felled.
(d) It flooded in the last rain and is now full of pits and holes.

5. 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 keep out nosey guards.
(d) To show the men where the radio is hidden.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Marlowe go in the morning?

2. Why does Lt. Grey place Marlowe under arrest?

3. Where does the King summon Marlowe, Larkin and McCoy?

4. What does Sean refuse to do at first?

5. Who gets a letter from his wife?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Marlowe, Larkin and Smedly-Taylor decide to pass on the news to the camp after getting the radio working and what is the result?

2. How does Lt. Grey compromise his honor and what is his reaction after doing so?

3. Describe the pursuit and escape of Marlowe with the money.

4. Why will the airfield detail have an agreeable aspect to it?

5. Who does the King invite to start up a rat breeding operation and what is the plan?

6. Describe the "birthday party" of the elite who are invited to a barbecue.

7. How do Marlowe and the King reestablish their friendship after the King blows up at Marlowe about the radio?

8. Who intercepts Lt. Grey as he goes to arrest Prouty and Marlowe, and why does Grey allow himself to be distracted?

9. What does Dr. Kennedy say about Marlowe's arm?

10. What happens when the King offers Marlowe $108 dollars as Marlowe's take in the transaction with Prouty's watch?

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