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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 15-25.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What objects of Carnehan's were filling "half the room" (15) in the newspaper office?
(a) His sideburns.
(b) His biceps.
(c) His scruples.
(d) His shoulders.

2. Dravot said that it was not worth getting to know the names of what?
(a) The native plants.
(b) The native animals.
(c) The neighboring tribes.
(d) The current kings.

3. What did Carnehan and Dravot promise to avoid in the pursuit of their kingdom?
(a) Women and government spies.
(b) Liquor and gambling.
(c) Liquor and women.
(d) Gambling and revealing their identities.

4. The narrator told his new acquaintance on the train that he would be getting back on the train within how many days?
(a) 10.
(b) 4.
(c) 6.
(d) 8.

5. Carnehan and Dravot drew up a contract revolving around what item?
(a) Hashish.
(b) Alcohol.
(c) Tobacco.
(d) Opium.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator states on the first page of the story that he feared that his "King" (3) had met what fate?

2. The narrator was on a train traveling to what location?

3. What was Dravot's first name?

4. How many men stood in the narrator's way when he moved to leave the newspaper office?

5. When the narrator found the man to whom he had promised to deliver the message, what was the man's main identifying feature?

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