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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. Initially who in their group takes charge of the English women and children?
(a) Eileen Holland
(b) Esmé Harrison
(c) Jean Paget
(d) Mrs. Horsefall

2. What does Jean begin wearing?
(a) Bermuda shorts
(b) some military pants
(c) a sarong
(d) a grass skirt

3. What does Jean know from her own experience in the Malay jungles?
(a) the incompetence of military doctors
(b) the lack of medicine
(c) the conditions of men prisoners
(d) the symptoms of cholera

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

5. Seeing the suntanned Jean with a baby on her hip, what does Harman think she is?
(a) a servant girl
(b) a Malay married woman
(c) a Malay spy
(d) the wife of one of the Japanese

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jean learn from Strachan?

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

3. Because of his punishment, what does the religious Mrs. Frith decide about Joe Harman?

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

5. How do Jean and Mrs. Horsefall manage to communicate with the Japanese?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Jean show up in Strachan's office?

3. How do Jean and the group she is with get captured by the Japanese?

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

5. What is Eileen Holland's attitude when her daughter Jane dies?

6. Briefly describe what happens after the Japanese arrive.

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

8. Explain how Jean becomes the leader of the group.

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

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

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