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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who are David and Joyce Bowen?
(a) people who have Joe Harman's address
(b) people from the British consul service
(c) people Jean stays with in Kuantan
(d) people who knew Joe Harman

2. How do Jean and Mrs. Horsefall manage to communicate with the Japanese?
(a) charades
(b) speaking Malay
(c) hand signals
(d) an English/Japanese dictionary

3. Why do the Japanese agree to let the women stay and work in the fields?
(a) it will make it easier to guard them
(b) it will give them time to find a truck
(c) it will teach them a lesson about obedience
(d) it will produce more rice for them

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Visiting Cairns, a prosperous town of some 2,000, what does Jean find waiting for her?

2. Why does Jean hardly remember her late uncle?

3. What is Pack and Levy Ltd.?

4. What does Jean learn at an early age that is very helpful to her during the war?

5. What do they encounter as they walk through the swamps?

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