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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 does Strachan notice and cannot help but look at?
(a) Joe's round face
(b) Joe's dark brown eyes
(c) Joe's scarred hands
(d) Joe's thin physique

2. How does Jean carry baby Robin Holland?
(a) on her back
(b) on her hip like the Malay women
(c) on her shoulder
(d) in a papoose pouch

3. Seeing the suntanned Jean with a baby on her hip, what does Harman think she is?
(a) the wife of one of the Japanese
(b) a servant girl
(c) a Malay married woman
(d) a Malay spy

4. What do the other ladies in the group do to follow Jean's example?
(a) start wearing pants
(b) walk barefoot
(c) put on sarongs
(d) cover their heads with rags

5. What do they encounter as they walk through the swamps?
(a) Japanese ambushes
(b) places where the water is waist deep
(c) elephants, tigers, and wasps
(d) snakes, crocodiles, and mosquitoes

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Strachan research about Jean's ancestors?

2. What is Mrs. Frith's suggestion for the group?

3. Besides the well, what has Jean caused to be built?

4. Who are David and Joyce Bowen?

5. Who remembers the poor boy Joe Harman who was in the hospital for 3-4 months?

(see the answer key)

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