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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 angers Capt. Sugamo at Kuantan?

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

3. After walking to several places and finding no ship, what do the women decide to do?

4. What happens to Ben Collard, one of the boys?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain the disappearance of Ellen Forbes.

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

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

4. Why is Strachan more or less retired?

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay on modern day chivalry. Use Joe Harman to show his chivalry in Malaya in trying to make life easier for the women and children. Then show his chivalry in being protective of Jean's reputation in Willstown. Finish your essay with an evaluation of chivalry today where practices such as opening doors for women have almost gone out of use. Explain whether you think the world should return to some of that chivalry.

Essay Topic 2

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.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay on achieving your dreams. Note in your essay how Jean Paget fulfilled her dreams through hard work and good advice from others. In your essay discuss the difference between wishful thinking and dreams followed up by planning and hard work.

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