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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Grey to check in the ditch by Hut 16?

2. What is Eve?

3. What is essential to the rat project?

4. What does Marlowe ask of King?

5. Who learns to cook the weed gratis?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do the King, Marlowe and Max talk about concerning the rat project?

2. What are Max, Tex and Marlowe doing at the opening of Chapter 9 and why?

3. Describe The King.

4. Describe the visit between the King and Sgt. Masters.

5. Why is Lt. Grey happy at the beginning of Chapter 6?

6. What are Lt. Grey's thoughts after being assigned new duties?

7. Describe Max.

8. What secret does the King leak to the Australians and how does Marlowe react to the news?

9. Describe Steven.

10. Who is the Provost Marshal and what is he doing at the opening of Chapter 1.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

"Politics" and manipulation influence much of what happens in KING RAT. Discuss one of the following:

1. Describe the political situation in KING RAT and how it impacts the actions of three of the major characters.

2. Discuss and analyze several people who try to manipulate others and their responses to the manipulators.

3. Do you think the Politics of a group of civilians in a similar situation would be different from that of the military, which has a system of rank that in some ways limits politics? Or does a military structure limit politics?

Essay Topic 2

Lt. Grey feels in a moral quandary about using paper from a Bible to roll cigarettes. Discuss the following:

1. Discuss several moral quandaries in which various characters find themselves. What usually wins out: morality or survival?

2. Are all the moral choices about survival? Are there other moral choices the characters have to make that has nothing to do with their survival--or are all choices in a place such as Changi linked to survival?

3. Discuss five characters and the limits they put upon themselves as far as their choices between right and wrong. In other words, do the characters have a point at which they will not go beyond even to ensure their survival?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the following:

1. Give a brief statement of the plot of KING RAT

2. Thoroughly analyze how the setting informs the plot in KING RAT. How do you think KING RAT be different if this were a POW camp in Germany? In Italy?

3. Discuss thoroughly how you think a POW camp run by the Americans or British would differ from Changi. (This will require some research.)

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