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Questions 1-5 of 25:

1.

Why is it necessary for the King and the others involved in the rat farm to keep the rats separated?

It will help ensure that if one group of rats gets sick, the other groups won’t be affected.

Rats are cannibals and will eat their own young, and each other, if left together.

The King does not want the rats to breed too quickly.

There are several different kinds of rats and they will only breed with their own kind.

2.

How does Peter Marlowe injure his arm?

He is stabbed during a fight.

A tree stump falls on it during a work detail.

He scratches it while going through the wire and it becomes infected.

He is wounded playing “two-up” with the King.

3.

What “brilliant” idea does the King come up with that saves the rat farm project?

They will only sell the rat meat to officers with the rank of Major and above.

They will only sell the meat to the guards.

They will give some meat to Lt. Grey so that he will leave the farm alone.

They will give a male and female rat to a few other huts and take a percentage of what they breed.

4.

What adjective best describes how the King feels when he first sees that Marlowe has gotten a radio in the village?

Ecstatic.

Furious.

Amazed.

Scared.

5.

What does Marlowe say to Sean in his dressing room that makes him go onstage and perform?

He will never speak to Sean again if he does not perform.

He loves Sean.

Sean IS a woman, and that he is the most important person in the camp.

He will give Sean extra rations if he goes on.

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