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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Chapters 5-8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who may sit on the lone throne?
(a) Only Colonels.
(b) Any Major and above.
(c) Only Generals.
(d) Only officers.

2. What do three officers share after the rain?
(a) An egg mixed in rice and a cigarette.
(b) Some illegal hooch.
(c) A rare cigar.
(d) Information from the wireless.

3. What is Maj. Barry asking King to sell?
(a) A Ronson cigarette lighter.
(b) A switchblade.
(c) A pair of scissors.
(d) Two packs of cigarettes.

4. Why can't Marlowe sleep the night after the King talks with him about going outside the wire?
(a) He keeps thinking about the voyage from Java.
(b) He is afraid to go outside the wire.
(c) He is too hot.
(d) He is planning on how to take over the King's operations.

5. Where does Col. Kennedy go after talking with the King?
(a) To talk with Col. Brant.
(b) To the Korean guards to ask for more quinine.
(c) Outside the wire.
(d) To attend another death.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Grey feel defeated?

2. What happens to Daven and Cox?

3. What does King see in Marlowe's offer?

4. What did Smedly-Taylor ask of Cox and Daven?

5. What does King give Marlowe?

(see the answer key)

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