View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Shagata report?
(a) Cheng has been executed.
(b) Cheng has been released and has the money.
(c) Cheng has been exiled.
(d) Cheng is no longer interested in the deal.

2. What is the show called that Sean is about to premiere?
(a) Triangle.
(b) Circle.
(c) King Rat.
(d) Shogun.

3. About what does Smedly-Talyor laugh after Lt. Grey leaves?
(a) Grey arresting Marlowe.
(b) Grey being in the regular army.
(c) Nothing; he is worried Grey will go over his head.
(d) Grey thinking Smedly-Taylor is clean.

4. What does Marlowe recall as they are fumigating the bed?
(a) His young son and daughter.
(b) Why he was captured.
(c) His wife.
(d) The first prison Marlowe was in.

5. What does the King promise if Marlowe will go bury the money in the jungle?
(a) To help him meet up with Sulina again.
(b) To give Marlowe half of the profits.
(c) To give him some of his bodyguards if needed.
(d) To save Marlowe's arm.

6. About what does Torusumi talk?
(a) Home life and Koreans' hatred of the Japanese overlords.
(b) That his wife would love the diamond.
(c) That the Japanese plan to kill all the prisoners before the Japanese withdraw.
(d) That if he cannot get the diamond, he will turn them in.

7. What do some men wonder about Marlowe and the King?
(a) If Marlowe has something on the King.
(b) If the King is paying Marlowe.
(c) If they will go into business together after the war.
(d) If they are lovers.

8. Why does the King choose Timsen to reveal the rat operation to?
(a) He is not squeamish.
(b) He was a butcher in his civilian life.
(c) He is the only Australian the King trusts.
(d) He used to be in animal husbandry.

9. What day is it at the opening to Chapter 6?
(a) The first day of Spring.
(b) V-E day.
(c) May Day.
(d) Memorial day.

10. How does Lt. Grey find the tampered weights?
(a) He tortures one of the enlisted men who is serving the grain.
(b) He takes the machines apart and checks the weights.
(c) He stumbles and knocks them over.
(d) He has one of the Korean guards check the weights.

11. Why does Lt. Grey place Marlowe under arrest?
(a) For eating dog.
(b) For disobeying orders.
(c) For selling a fountain pen to a Korean guard.
(d) For not distributing the coconuts fairly.

12. What does Marlowe wish?
(a) That life could be simple again and he could talk to God without shame.
(b) That he had taken the $108 dollar commission.
(c) That the Allies would get there.
(d) That the King would leave Marlowe alone.

13. What does the doctor warn Marlowe about his arm?
(a) The muscle has atrophied.
(b) This ligaments are torn.
(c) It could get grangrene.
(d) That it is not infected but could get that way soon.

14. What does Hawkins' dog do?
(a) Kills some rats for the soldiers for food.
(b) Attack Yoshima.
(c) Kills and eats one of Foster's hens.
(d) Attacks a huge lizard and dies.

15. What does McCoy say to Larkin about Prouty?
(a) Habeaus Corpus.
(b) Caveat emptor.
(c) Mea culpa.
(d) Veni, vidi, vici.

Short Answer Questions

1. What secret of Grey's does the King know?

2. How much does Marlowe get for the sergeant's fountain pen?

3. For whom are Marlowe and the King waiting at the beginning of Chapter 19?

4. Where does Marlowe go in the morning?

5. What does Smedly-Taylor offer Grey to appease him about the weights?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 606 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample