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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the women find when they reach the highway at Maran?
(a) more women walking to Kuantan
(b) an American prisoner working on a truck
(c) two white men working under a Japanese truck
(d) a convoy of Japanese soldiers

2. Why does Sugamo order that Harman be removed from the tree and taken to a hospital?
(a) Sugamo wants the natives to see his kindness
(b) Sugamo cannot fulfill his last wish and thus show Bushido
(c) Sugamo fears he might be reprimanded for torturing a prisonerd
(d) Sugamo has a change of heart and remorseful

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

4. What doe the soldiers do in Kuala Panong?
(a) remove the children from their parents
(b) shoot the men
(c) confiscate jewelry
(d) lock the women and children in a cellar

5. Because of his punishment, what does the religious Mrs. Frith decide about Joe Harman?
(a) that he was sent by God
(b) that he was another Moses
(c) that he is a second Christ
(d) that he must have sinned

Short Answer Questions

1. In the hospital, how had Joe referred to Jean Paget?

2. Who is Mat Amin bin Taib?

3. What is Mrs. Frith's suggestion for the group?

4. What does Jean learn from 18-year-old Rose Sawyer?

5. What doe the Japanese soldiers do to help the group?

(see the answer key)

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