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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 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 had not been able to survive Kuantan
(c) she appears to be a total city woman
(d) she had survived three years in Malaya

2. What occurs with baby Robin after the other Holland children all die?
(a) he starts to walk
(b) he gets a fever but survives
(c) he returns to Eileen
(d) he prefers to stay with Jean

3. Who exits the large Customs launch Jean hopes will take her to singapore?
(a) prisoners of war
(b) her father
(c) Japanese soldiers
(d) Japanese sympathizers

4. What makes recruiting for the shop easy?
(a) parents make their daughters go to work
(b) ringers start coming to town more often
(c) there are more girls than Jean once thought
(d) air conditioning, music, uniforms, and spending money

5. What does Eileen Holland declare is God's will?
(a) the long miles of walking
(b) the poor quality of their food
(c) the news that her husband has been shot
(d) the death of her daughter, Jane

Short Answer Questions

1. How much does Jean request Strachan release from her trust fund?

2. How does Ferris describe Donal Macfadden?

3. Besides the factory, what else does Jean want?

4. Why does Jean miss the evacuation to Singapore?

5. Who is Joe Popcock that Jean meets at her hotel while talking to the ringers?

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