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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is she able to do her project in the hotel?
(a) several women pitch in to help
(b) Rose Sawyer comes to help her
(c) Strachan sends her the materials
(d) several men in the town get supplies for her

2. What does Jean ask Harman if he can get for them?
(a) a ride on one of the Japanese trucks
(b) good rice and a place to sleep
(c) Glauber's salts, quinine, and something for skin rashes
(d) some fresh water and fruit

3. What gives Jean the idea of making shoes?
(a) seeing how expensive shoes are in Australia
(b) her own personal shoe fetish
(c) her past experience working at Pack and Levy
(d) watching Australians going barefoot

4. Who gives them homemade medicine for the dengue fever?
(a) Mrs. Frith
(b) the Red Cross
(c) the headman in Mentri
(d) the Japanese

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many girls does Small think would work regularly for £5 a week in a shoe factory?

2. What concerns Strachan about Joe's visit to his office?

3. What does Jean make in her hotel room?

4. Where are Jean and Harman finally reunited?

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

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