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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to Ben Collard, one of the boys?

2. After landing her job in 1939, how long does Jean work?

3. Who are the prisoners being held by the Japanese?

4. Seeing the suntanned Jean with a baby on her hip, what does Harman think she is?

5. What does Dr. Ferris say relieved a bit of the grimness of Camp 206?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is the first casualty of the march and what effect does it have on the children.

2. Explain why N. H. Strachan decides to handle the details of administering the will?

3. How does the real story of the novel begin?

4. Explain the disappearance of Ellen Forbes.

5. Why is headman Mat Amin bin Taib surprised at Jean's request for food?

6. When the group reaches the northeast coast of Malaya, what helps the women?

7. What is lacking in Jean's education that Strachan enjoys supplementing?

8. What is Jean's reaction to the news of her inheritance?

9. After Jean tells Strachan what happened to Joe Harman, what is Strachan's reaction and Jean's comment.

10. Why and how is Jean able to do something special for the women and children?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay about adjusting to difficult situations. Mention how Jean and the women had to adjust to being prisoners and later working in the rice paddies. Write about how Jean adjusted to Willstown and how the town adjusted to her. Conclude with the idea that at any given time, people may have to adjust to difficult situations. Identify appropriate action and behavior in a specific bad situation like being in a strange place and running out of money. Detail how to best deal with such a circumstance.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay on survival. Base your essay on the survival methods of Jean Paget and the women as they are marched all over Malaya. Explain what people will do to survive that they would not ordinarily do. Put yourself into a survival situation like an earthquake or famine and tell how you would prepare for the emergency and how you would handle it when it happens.

Essay Topic 3

Write a short short story about paying a surprise visit to another person only to find out that person has gone to visit you in the place you came from. Find the humor as well as the irony of the situation and work out a solution to the problem.

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