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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. What does Jean learn at an early age that is very helpful to her during the war?

2. What does Mrs. Warner provide for the children?

3. What does Jean ask Harman if he can get for them?

4. What does Jean Paget present to Strachan when she arrives in his office?

5. Why does Douglas Macfadden want his legacy set up as a trust for his surviving relative?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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. How does the real story of the novel begin?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay about someone you know or know of whom you would classify as a hero. Use the character of Joe Harman from the novel as a guideline as to what makes a hero. Identify several types of heroes such as firemen, EMS paramedics, teachers, military personnel and explain how each of them may perform heroic deeds.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay about interesting animals. Use wallabies and jackaroos as examples of animals that are uncommon to everyone except people in Australia. Include unusual animals you would like to see in their natural habitat rather than in a zoo. Conclude your essay with a scientific reason for preservation of wildlife as it relates to worldwide ecosystems.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay about how certain places or objects bring back memories, either good or bad. As a starting point, use the example of Jean seeing the tree where Harman was nailed up to die. Give examples from your personal life that trigger memories when you see or hear them. What songs were popular when you had your first steady? What place you visit that always brings back memories like your old high school, or a ball park, or an amusement park.

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