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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 7-8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jean write to Mr. Strachan about her plans?
(a) she is contacting the Australian Embassy
(b) she is flying to Darwin
(c) she is taking a ship to Sydney
(d) she is headed for New Zealand

2. What is amusing in the idea that he cannot believe she has survived three weeks in Willstown?
(a) she had not been able to survive Kuantan
(b) she appears to be a total city woman
(c) she had survived three years in Malaya
(d) she looks so frail without the tan and the sarong

3. In the hospital, how had Joe referred to Jean Paget?
(a) Mrs. Horsefal
(b) Mrs. Jean
(c) Mrs. Paget
(d) Mrs. Boon

4. What do they find when they reach Maran?
(a) a tarmac road
(b) a mango orchard
(c) banana trees
(d) an abandoned village

5. After walking to several places and finding no ship, what do the women decide to do?
(a) refuse to walk further
(b) walk to Singapore
(c) return to Kuala Lumpur
(d) head for Thailand

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is Mrs. Frith's suggestion for the group?

3. What does Mrs. Frith say about Kuantan?

4. What does jean remember Joe Harman telling her?

5. What does Jean see for the first time on the coral island?

(see the answer key)

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