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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What doe the Japanese soldiers do to help the group?
(a) steal a truck
(b) carry the children
(c) stop every two miles to rest
(d) give them extra food

2. Now, after her inheritance, why does Jean want to return to Kuala Telang?
(a) to remind herself of her past hard life
(b) to do something for the women in the village
(c) to find out where Harman is buried
(d) to see if anything has changed since the war

3. Who does Jean describe as a fair-haired, powerfully built man speaking slowly with a drawl?
(a) Sgt. Marion York
(b) Sgt. Joe Harman
(c) Cpl. Ben Leggett
(d) Pvt. Jack Hammand

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

5. Who is in the photograph Jean finds and shows to the dying sergeant?
(a) a beautiful Japanese woman
(b) a woman and four children
(c) the Emperor of Japan
(d) children playing on a beach

6. Why does Jean hardly remember her late uncle?
(a) no one knew where Macfadden was
(b) she only saw him once when she was a girl
(c) she knew him only from photographs
(d) her family was the black sheep

7. Why can the headman simply allow the women to stay on in his village without informing the Japanese?
(a) they will conscript him into the army
(b) they will kill the entire village
(c) they will make him kill the women
(d) they will punish him

8. How many Japanese guards are assigned to the women and children?
(a) only one
(b) three
(c) four
(d) two

9. How had the women been carrying Ben collard?
(a) on a travois
(b) in a small wagon
(c) on their backs
(d) on a litter

10. What happens when the Japanese near Kuala Lumpur?
(a) a peace delegation is sent to the Japanese
(b) the women and children are hidden underground
(c) the women and children are evacuated
(d) the British army increases its size

11. Beyond the annual trust funds, what is Strachan authorized to do for Jean?
(a) he can reinvest her basic funds
(b) he can adjust the amount for inflation
(c) he can help her get bank loans
(d) he can release some of her principle

12. How does Ferris describe Donal Macfadden?
(a) as a delicate, popular, and multi-lingual lieutenant
(b) as a man who fought unsuccessfully to live
(c) as burned almost beyond recognition
(d) as a trouble maker and difficult patient

13. What is the feeling at the time the Japanese first arrive in Malaya?
(a) they are safe because the government complies
(b) they are safe because the Japanese only want the coast
(c) they are safe because of the surrounding mountains
(d) they are safe because the British troops are in Kuala Lumpur

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

15. Why is it now easier for Jean to arrange food and shelter at the village?
(a) the group is much smaller
(b) there is no headman
(c) the villagers think they are Japanese
(d) the people speak English

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How are they told they must get to Singapore?

3. Who is Mat Amin bin Taib?

4. What was one of Donald's medical problems in the Camp 206 hospital?

5. What does Eileen Holland declare is God's will?

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