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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 Strachan observe about Dr. Ferris?

2. Why do the Japanese agree to let the women stay and work in the fields?

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

4. How many Japanese guards are assigned to the women and children?

5. What meal are they served for breakfast the first morning?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. Explain the disappearance of Ellen Forbes.

7. When the group reaches the northeast coast of Malaya, what helps the women?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write a short short story about paying a surprise visit to another person only to find out that person has gone to visit you in the place you came from. Find the humor as well as the irony of the situation and work out a solution to the problem.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay on male chauvinism using Douglas Macfadden as an example of prejudice against women as business managers. Include whether you think such thinking still exists today. Examples you might want to use include the small number of women managers and CEOs in business today. Discuss the chauvinism in disproportionate pay for the same work.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay on human kindness. In your essay mention the few Japanese who showed some kindness toward the women and children. Also mention the Malay people and why their sympathy for the group was tempered by fear. Show how even small kindnesses may mean a great deal to the recipient. Conclude with how a kindness may result in something coming back to the giver, like the well Jean Paget had dug for the Malay women.

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