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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 7-8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What report does Sugamo receive about Harman after the women have left?
(a) he is still alive
(b) his body was stolen
(c) he escaped
(d) he died during the night

2. After walking to several places and finding no ship, what do the women decide to do?
(a) return to Kuala Lumpur
(b) refuse to walk further
(c) walk to Singapore
(d) head for Thailand

3. What is amusing in the idea that he cannot believe she has survived three weeks in Willstown?
(a) she had not been able to survive Kuantan
(b) she looks so frail without the tan and the sarong
(c) she appears to be a total city woman
(d) she had survived three years in Malaya

4. Where are Jean and Harman finally reunited?
(a) at the construction site in Willstown
(b) on the dock at Brisbane
(c) at the airport in Cairns
(d) at the train station in Rockhampton

5. Why is there such a turnover of ringers in the Willstown area?
(a) the managers are all too hard to work for
(b) the wages are low and there are no shops
(c) the weather is hot and there is no rainfall
(d) men do not stay because the girls all leave to the city

Short Answer Questions

1. In the hospital, how had Joe referred to Jean Paget?

2. What happens to Ellen Forbes?

3. What is the bore?

4. How does Jean get a final look at the construction at Kuala Telang?

5. What do the villagers at Temerloh give what is left of the group?

(see the answer key)

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