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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to Ben Collard, one of the boys?
(a) he is shot by the Japanese
(b) he dies of an injury
(c) he is sent to the men's prison camp
(d) he is conscripted into the army

2. Why does the lawyer Strachan not remember Douglas Macfadden at first?
(a) he thinks the old man has hired another firm
(b) he loses touch with clients after his wife dies
(c) he has been in ill health for many years
(d) he never travels again to Scotland

3. What is the somewhat odd thing Jean wants to do first with her money?
(a) go shopping in Paris
(b) return to Malaya and dig a well
(c) visit Alice Springs, Australia
(d) buy her own cottage

4. What was one of Donald's medical problems in the Camp 206 hospital?
(a) a crushed right lig
(b) a huge, poisonous tropical ulcer on his leg
(c) a bullet wound to the head
(d) a strange virus the doctors had never heard of

5. How are they told they must get to Singapore?
(a) by plane
(b) by trucks
(c) by train
(d) on foot

Short Answer Questions

1. What angers Capt. Sugamo at Kuantan?

2. What do the women find when they reach the highway at Maran?

3. What happens to Ellen Forbes?

4. Who exits the large Customs launch Jean hopes will take her to singapore?

5. Where does Strachan take Jean at the conclusion of their first visit?

(see the answer key)

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