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

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

3. Who is in the photograph Jean finds and shows to the dying sergeant?

4. In what does Strachan attempt educate Jean?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. What does Mrs. Frith suggest the women do?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay on the importance of gathering facts and making plans before attempting a project. Use Jean Paget and Mr. Strachan in your essay as examples. Do not forget to mention the planning that went into his trip to Australia. Make this essay a comment on the potential pitfalls of impulsive action. Some examples you might want to use include people who go out in boats without flotation devices, hikers who go out without water and first aid supplies, etc.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay on traditional folk medicine. In your essay write about home cures and medications that were used long before the pharmaceutical business evolved. Express to what extant you think some of those traditional remedies may be useful today. Discuss in your essay the current problem with misuse of prescription drugs and how natural remedies and preventatives do not pose that same problem.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay about responding to emergency situations. Using the rescue of Don Curtis as an example, include how people often come together to solve problems during an emergency situation. Some examples might include ones like a man who lifts a car to rescue his child when under normal circumstances he could not do it. Either personalize your essay with an example when you responded to an emergency situation or that of a person you know who acted on impulse in such a situation. Apply your theme to being prepared to respond like taking CPR classes or water safety classes.

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