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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. The camp technically wasn't a _________, but Michael K also wasn't allowed to leave.
(a) Military installation.
(b) Sentence.
(c) Jail.
(d) Compound.

2. What did Michael K only do sparingly so as not to call attention to his good and his new home?
(a) Change the roof.
(b) Water his crop.
(c) Take baths.
(d) Eat.

3. Michael K collapsed during the training after suffering from labored breathing and a low ____________.
(a) Fever.
(b) Mood.
(c) Heartbeat.
(d) Blood pressure.

4. Michael K was not interested in the __________ that the doctor proposed in order to help him.
(a) Needle.
(b) Operation.
(c) Medicine.
(d) Food.

5. The doctor believes that Michael is too ________ to have been helping the rebels.
(a) Quiet.
(b) Stupid.
(c) Tired.
(d) Weak.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Michael K decide to live after leaving the farmhouse where he had been staying?

2. Michael K met a man named _______ who had been kicked off his farm and detained from his family.

3. The grandson admits to Michael K that he is a deserter of the ________.

4. The camp where Michael K was kept was built on the old ___________ at the edge of town.

5. Where was Michael K taken in order to be interrogated for more information about the attacks?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did the doctor want the captain to discharge Michael out of the camp?

2. How did anyone know that the camp where Michael was at was once a racetrack?

3. What did K tell Captain Noel when the captain asked him about his garden?

4. What did K refuse to do when he was put in with the regular refugees at the camp?

5. What did the doctor think K's mother's influence was on K's current habit of not eating any food?

6. What are some of the things which are added to the refugee camps in order to make them internment camps?

7. What was the doctor's reasoning behind feeling that K was innocent of the charges?

8. What is the doctor's explanation of K's refusal to eat camp food during his stay at the camp?

9. What news did K not seem very interested in when the doctor told him this information?

10. What were some of the signs of K's poor condition when he collapsed during physical training?

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