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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For what do they conclude Joe Harman had given them reason to hope?
(a) that their one guard would leave them alone
(b) that they will again see homes and husbands
(c) that they might find other kind people
(d) that they would not be punished for stealing

2. What do the villagers at Temerloh give what is left of the group?
(a) rice and fish
(b) bread and water
(c) sarongs and blankets
(d) fresh fruit and more medicine

3. Who are the prisoners being held by the Japanese?
(a) two Britains
(b) two Americans
(c) two Australians
(d) two Canadians

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jean know from her own experience in the Malay jungles?

2. What happens to Harman after he steals the chickens?

3. Who does Jean describe as a fair-haired, powerfully built man speaking slowly with a drawl?

4. In what does Strachan attempt educate Jean?

5. What does Yoniata promise the women after seeing their condition?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Strachan arrange to meet Jean Paget?

2. What is Jean's attitude toward the time the women spent in Kuala Telang?

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

4. What does Strachan do that hints at the fact he has more than a solicitor-client interest in Jean Paget?

5. Describe how Jean Paget becomes the heir to Douglas Macfadden's estate.

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

7. What do they have to do to get to Kuantan?

8. What suggestion from Jean meets with the approval of the villagers and the Japanese invaders?

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

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

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