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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is it easy for Jean to get a job in Kuala Lumpur?
(a) she is very attractive
(b) she has a master's degree
(c) her father has great connections
(d) there are few English girls who can speak Malay

2. What does Jean know from her own experience in the Malay jungles?
(a) the incompetence of military doctors
(b) the symptoms of cholera
(c) the lack of medicine
(d) the conditions of men prisoners

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

4. What does Mrs. Warner provide for the children?
(a) sweets made from cocount sugar
(b) school lessons on free days
(c) dolls and toys make from bamboo
(d) a soccer ball made from palm leaves

5. What angers Capt. Sugamo at Kuantan?
(a) five of his black leghorn chickens are missing
(b) some of his sake has gone missing
(c) the trucks arrive way past schedule
(d) he does not know what to do with women prisoners

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Mrs. Horsefall cede leadership of the group to Jean?

2. What doe the Japanese soldiers do to help the group?

3. What do they encounter as they walk through the swamps?

4. Where was the legacy to go originally?

5. How do Jean and Mrs. Horsefall manage to communicate with the Japanese?

(see the answer key)

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