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

2. What do they find when they reach Maran?
(a) a tarmac road
(b) a mango orchard
(c) banana trees
(d) an abandoned village

3. What meal are they served for breakfast the first morning?
(a) canned sardines and peas
(b) thin fish soup and dirty rice
(c) plain rice
(d) Spam and moldy bread

4. What is the unusual situation of the women when the sergeant dies?
(a) they must decide where to go next on their own
(b) they can escape but do not know where to go
(c) they are afraid because there is no protection
(d) they are prisoners without a guard

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What prevents Jean from receiving the inheritance immediately?

2. With her principle invested, how much will Jean receive annually?

3. Because of his punishment, what does the religious Mrs. Frith decide about Joe Harman?

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

5. What does Jean learn from Strachan?

(see the answer key)

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