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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Dr. Ferris say relieved a bit of the grimness of Camp 206?
(a) the entertainments brought in
(b) the gentle rain in the area
(c) the fresh water from a natural spring
(d) the beauty of Three Pagodas Pass

3. What doe the Japanese soldiers do to help the group?
(a) stop every two miles to rest
(b) steal a truck
(c) give them extra food
(d) carry the children

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why can the headman simply allow the women to stay on in his village without informing the Japanese?

2. What happens when the Japanese near Kuala Lumpur?

3. Why is the Japanese sergeant disgraced?

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

5. Why does the lawyer Strachan not remember Douglas Macfadden at first?

(see the answer key)

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