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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 is the somewhat odd thing Jean wants to do first with her money?
(a) visit Alice Springs, Australia
(b) return to Malaya and dig a well
(c) go shopping in Paris
(d) buy her own cottage

2. Why does Douglas Macfadden want his legacy set up as a trust for his surviving relative?
(a) he is not sure where she is
(b) he thinks only lawyers should handle his fortune
(c) he does not want to give all at once what he accumulated over a long time
(d) he believes women cannot handle money

3. Why can the headman simply allow the women to stay on in his village without informing the Japanese?
(a) they will punish him
(b) they will conscript him into the army
(c) they will kill the entire village
(d) they will make him kill the women

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

5. How are they told they must get to Singapore?
(a) by trucks
(b) by train
(c) on foot
(d) by plane

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Jean sit on the steps outside the bar while Whelan seals the contract with the Shire Clerk?

2. After landing her job in 1939, how long does Jean work?

3. How does Jean classify her time during World War II?

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

5. Who is in the photograph Jean finds and shows to the dying sergeant?

(see the answer key)

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