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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Larkin tell Grey to do?
2. About what is the King thinking when he spies a man talking with a native?
3. By what are King and Marlowe shaken?
4. What did Smedly-Taylor ask of Cox and Daven?
5. On what does Grey splurge?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Malowe learn about rats?
2. Describe Lt. Grey.
3. What is the status of Eve at the opening of Chapter 11?
4. What do the King, Marlowe and Max talk about concerning the rat project?
5. Describe The King.
6. Who is the Provost Marshal and what is he doing at the opening of Chapter 1.
7. What does Vexley teach and how does it help the rat business?
8. Why does Lt. Grey arrest two of Larkin's men and what is Larkin's response?
9. What secret does the King leak to the Australians and how does Marlowe react to the news?
10. Describe the first meeting between The King and Marlowe.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Often in an unusual situation, especially one as difficult as Changi, when the experience comes to a close, people respond in various ways--sometimes in ways that seem mysterious to the onlooker. Discuss the following:
1. Describe how the King, Marlowe, and Sean each respond to liberation and discuss why you think they do so. Does each response make sense to those who come to help the POWs? Does it make sense to you, the reader?
2. Choose three characters and discuss how you think the experience at Changi will impact their future behavior. Will the impact be mainly negative? Or will there be some positive outcomes? Do you think any of them suppress the memories of the experience? Why or why not.
3. It is obvious how such a situation as Changi can have a negative effect on those incarcerated there, but it is possible that there are positive outcomes also. Discuss some of the possible positive effects such an experience might have on a person.
Essay Topic 2
Japanese regard Westerners who surrender as dishonored and strip officers of their rank. Discuss the following:
1. After research, compare/contrast Japanese and Western views of surrender.
2. Discuss the ways the Japanese attitudes towards surrender and POWs impacted their treatment of the prisoners in Changi.
3.. Truman demanded and received unconditional surrender from Japan. How do you think this impacted the Japanese National psyche? How do you think someone such as Yoshima in King Rat would explain the Japanese willingness to surrender?
Essay Topic 3
Right from the very beginning, it is obvious that some men will survive their experience in the camp and some will not. Discuss one of the following:
1. Describe the physical/emotional/spiritual/psychological characteristics of the men who survive and do so quite well in the camp. Who are some of those men? Describe each one briefly.
2. Describe the physical/emotional/spiritual/psychological characteristics of the men who do not survive or fare poorly in the camp. Who are some of those men? Describe each one briefly.
3. Analyze your own personality and discuss whether you think you would be a survivor or not. Choose several situations and discuss how you would have managed them.
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