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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why can the headman simply allow the women to stay on in his village without informing the Japanese?
(a) they will punish him
(b) they will kill the entire village
(c) they will make him kill the women
(d) they will conscript him into the army

2. Why does Jean hardly remember her late uncle?
(a) no one knew where Macfadden was
(b) her family was the black sheep
(c) she knew him only from photographs
(d) she only saw him once when she was a girl

3. What does Jean Paget present to Strachan when she arrives in his office?
(a) a basket of fruit
(b) proof of her identity
(c) a letter from her attorney
(d) fresh baked biscuits

4. Who is in the photograph Jean finds and shows to the dying sergeant?
(a) the Emperor of Japan
(b) a beautiful Japanese woman
(c) a woman and four children
(d) children playing on a beach

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How are they told they must get to Singapore?

2. What concerns Strachan about Joe's visit to his office?

3. What happens to Ellen Forbes?

4. For what do they conclude Joe Harman had given them reason to hope?

5. What does Jean know from her own experience in the Malay jungles?

(see the answer key)

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