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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Marlowe wonder about when he encounters Hawkins?
(a) Why Hawkins is all beat up.
(b) If Hawkins cries about his dog.
(c) If Hawkins knows his dog was eaten.
(d) If Hawkins plans any revenge.

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

4. What does Marlowe talk about to Sutra?
(a) The weather.
(b) The delicious saki.
(c) Nothing.
(d) The wireless.

5. For whom are Marlowe and the King waiting at the beginning of Chapter 19?
(a) Sutra.
(b) Shagata
(c) Col. Brant.
(d) Col. Kennedy.

6. Why does Larkin make a batch of blachang?
(a) The King asks him to do so.
(b) He is happy McCoy is getting better.
(c) He wants to impress Marlowe.
(d) He is depressed.

7. Who gets a letter from his wife?
(a) Larkin.
(b) Marlowe.
(c) McCoy.
(d) Timsen.

8. What does the King ask Timsen?
(a) To cut in on the ring profits to find some quinine for Tex.
(b) To find the ring.
(c) Nothing.
(d) To get some antitoxin and sulfonamide powder.

9. Of what could Marlowe eventually die?
(a) Septimia.
(b) Ebola.
(c) Dengue fever.
(d) Toxemia.

10. What does the King tell the officers that sobers them briefly as they are laughing and playing?
(a) That the Allies will be invading within weeks.
(b) That the Allies dropped two atomic bombs on Japan.
(c) That Lt. Grey has incriminating evidence against them all.
(d) That they are about to eat Rover's hindquarters.

11. When does the King say he will pay Timsen?
(a) When Marlowe is well enough to lead him to the money.
(b) In a week.
(c) That night since Grey is watching things right now.
(d) After Marlowe shows signs of getting better.

12. Where does Marlowe go in the morning?
(a) Outside the wire.
(b) On a liaison with Sulina.
(c) To the hospital.
(d) To talk to Col. Smedly-Taylor.

13. What does Marlowe believe about the war?
(a) It is almost over.
(b) It will never end.
(c) It will drag on for several more years.
(d) It no longer matters.

14. What does the King do with the ring?
(a) Gives it to Lt. Grey as a bribe.
(b) Swallows it.
(c) Throws it as far as possible into the jungle.
(d) Hands it over to the Korean guards.

15. What does Smedly-Taylor offer Grey to appease him about the weights?
(a) A pound of extra rations.
(b) A pass to the village.
(c) A quart of rice.
(d) A recommendation for a permanent commission after the war.

Short Answer Questions

1. About what is Samson envious concerning Marlowe?

2. What false information does the King relay?

3. What does Grey find on the King when he catches him?

4. Who cleaned up Marlowe when he was first captured?

5. Who confronts the King and Marlowe after they go away from the MPs?

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