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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 9-10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What prevents Jean from spending a lot of time at Midhurst?
(a) she has no transportation
(b) the shop is too busy
(c) Joe is away a great deal of the time
(d) the rural code of morals

2. What is amusing in the idea that he cannot believe she has survived three weeks in Willstown?
(a) she looks so frail without the tan and the sarong
(b) she appears to be a total city woman
(c) she had survived three years in Malaya
(d) she had not been able to survive Kuantan

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

4. What happens with the sergeant at the end of August in Kuala Telang?
(a) he joins another Japanese unit
(b) he comes down with malaria
(c) he runs away
(d) he shoots himself in the head

5. Where does Jean discover Joe Harman is?
(a) in New Zealand buying cattle
(b) in England on holiday, due back late October
(c) in Malaya visiting nurse Williams
(d) in America studying ranching

Short Answer Questions

1. After another day on the mail plane, where does Jean end up?

2. Who is the former A.T.S. sergeant during the war, stationed in Egypt, Topp perfect for the task of training the factory workers?

3. What does Jean write to Mr. Strachan about her plans?

4. Why does Mrs. Horsefall cede leadership of the group to Jean?

5. What does Jean begin wearing?

(see the answer key)

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