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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. Why is it easy for Jean to get a job in Kuala Lumpur?
(a) her father has great connections
(b) she has a master's degree
(c) there are few English girls who can speak Malay
(d) she is very attractive

2. What is Mrs. Frith's suggestion for the group?
(a) that they go on a hunger strike
(b) that they demand a truck to carry them
(c) that they seduce their Japanese guards
(d) that they find a village and settle there

3. What does Yoniata promise the women after seeing their condition?
(a) a truck
(b) new shoes
(c) a week's rest
(d) better food

4. What solution do the women come up with to allow them to stay in Kuala Telang?
(a) they will marry village men
(b) they will hide whenever the Japanese come around
(c) they will work in the rice paddies with the Malay women
(d) they will open a laundry for the Japanese

5. What does Mrs. Warner provide for the children?
(a) school lessons on free days
(b) a soccer ball made from palm leaves
(c) sweets made from cocount sugar
(d) dolls and toys make from bamboo

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the unusual situation of the women when the sergeant dies?

3. How had the women been carrying Ben collard?

4. What doe the soldiers do in Kuala Panong?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Strachan arrange to meet Jean Paget?

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

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

5. What hope is held out for their removal to Kuantan?

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

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

8. Briefly describe what happens after the Japanese arrive.

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

10. When they finally come to a paved road, who do the women meet?

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