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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Eve?
(a) The first female rat they breed.
(b) The code word for the breeding project.
(c) No one knows who Eve is; the word just appears on a hut wall one day.
(d) The name Steven calls himself in his latest play.

2. Why does Grey feel defeated?
(a) Col. Brant has demoted him.
(b) Col. Brant won't allow him to run the comissary.
(c) Marlowe plays along with King's lie.
(d) He cannot beat the other men at cards.

3. Why does Marlowe get the King in trouble in the first place?
(a) He does not like the man.
(b) To irritate Lt. Grey.
(c) To see what sort of man the King is.
(d) A love of danger.

4. Who is Lt. Grey?
(a) The camp quartermaster.
(b) The camp doctor.
(c) The camp Provost marshal.
(d) The camp liaison.

5. About how many litters per year can the Rattus norvegicus have per year?
(a) 12.
(b) 30-35.
(c) Anywhere from 5-40 depending upon its individual fertility.
(d) 2-4.

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

7. Who drinks quinine and then has nightmares?
(a) Marlowe.
(b) Lt. Grey.
(c) McCoy.
(d) Steven.

8. What does Marlowe offer the King after eating King's eggs?
(a) A machete.
(b) A free night out in town.
(c) A Cuban cigar.
(d) Tobacco cured in the Javanese way.

9. Why does the King thank Sgt. Masters?
(a) To ask when some quinine might become available.
(b) For tipping the King off about Lt. Grey's message.
(c) For the wine the Sgt. gives the King.
(d) For helping the King recover from a bout of Malaria.

10. What does Dr. Prudhomme announce?
(a) Two upcoming appendectomies.
(b) Four more deaths.
(c) Two upcoming amputations.
(d) Another run-in with the Japanese doctor.

11. What does Grey see the King do?
(a) Sell a watch illegally.
(b) Hand off the diamond to a Korean guard.
(c) Meet the Korean guard Turasan.
(d) Buy some smuggled goods.

12. What does the doctor rule as cause of death on Gurble?
(a) Cholera.
(b) Heart attack.
(c) Malaria.
(d) Suicide.

13. Who learns to cook the weed gratis?
(a) Lt. Grey.
(b) Tex.
(c) King.
(d) Col. Brant.

14. What happens to Daven and Cox?
(a) They are sent to Ultram Road Jail.
(b) They are executed.
(c) They are hung in stocks for five days.
(d) They are flogged.

15. Who leads a raid?
(a) Lt. Grey.
(b) Capt. Brough.
(c) Col. Brant.
(d) Major Barry.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long is the first litter's gestation?

2. What is essential to the rat project?

3. What is Rusa tikus?

4. What does Larkin say Australians need to do?

5. With whom do the King and Marlowe meet in the night?

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