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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Harman say about the town of Willstown now that Jean is there?
(a) it will never change no matter what she brings in
(b) it will be where they build a house
(c) it will need a railroad line soon
(d) it will soon be as good as Alice Springs

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

4. What does Strachan notice and cannot help but look at?
(a) Joe's thin physique
(b) Joe's scarred hands
(c) Joe's dark brown eyes
(d) Joe's round face

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do the Japanese agree to let the women stay and work in the fields?

2. What is the essence of Capt. Yoniata's lecture to the prisoners?

3. What doe the soldiers do in Kuala Panong?

4. What solution do the women come up with to allow them to stay in Kuala Telang?

5. What does Jean ask Harman if he can get for them?

(see the answer key)

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