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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What prevents Jean from receiving the inheritance immediately?
(a) they must have legal proof of her birth
(b) they must have legal proof of her sanity
(c) they must have legal proof of her brother's death
(d) they must have legal proof of her immigration status

2. 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 spy
(d) a Malay married woman

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

4. What does Jean learn at an early age that is very helpful to her during the war?
(a) to speak Japanese
(b) to survive off the land
(c) to speak Malay
(d) to give first aid

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why does Jean miss the evacuation to Singapore?

3. What occurs with baby Robin after the other Holland children all die?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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