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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. How does Shute let the reader know that Palmolive is not a great cook?
(a) the coffee is too strong
(b) the eggs are runny
(c) the steak is too tough to cut
(d) the steak is burned

3. Who finds Curtis and stays with him until help comes?
(a) Johnnie Walker
(b) Joe Harman
(c) Art Foster
(d) Whelan and his sons

4. Why does Mrs. Horsefall cede leadership of the group to Jean?
(a) she loses her mind
(b) she breaks her arm
(c) she cannot speak Malay
(d) she comes down with malaria

5. Why is Helen Curtis hysterical on the radio?
(a) her son has come down with a fever
(b) her husband's horse returned home without him
(c) the flood has washed away the curtis barn
(d) lightning struck her house and burned it down

Short Answer Questions

1. What concerns Jean that she cannot buy in Willstown?

2. What makes Jean angry at the bank?

3. What prevents Jean from spending a lot of time at Midhurst?

4. Where was the legacy to go originally?

5. What does Jean learn from Strachan?

(see the answer key)

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