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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 Paget present to Strachan when she arrives in his office?

2. Who shows up to berate the sergeant for not marching farther?

3. How are they told they must get to Singapore?

4. Why can the headman simply allow the women to stay on in his village without informing the Japanese?

5. Seeing the suntanned Jean with a baby on her hip, what does Harman think she is?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What prevents the group from marching to Singapore?

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

8. Explain the disappearance of Ellen Forbes.

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

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 a critique of A TOWN LIKE ALICE. Evaluate Nevil Shute as a story teller. Say what you think about his ability to describe people and places. Conclude with your recommendation as to who should read the book.

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 adjusting to difficult situations. Mention how Jean and the women had to adjust to being prisoners and later working in the rice paddies. Write about how Jean adjusted to Willstown and how the town adjusted to her. Conclude with the idea that at any given time, people may have to adjust to difficult situations. Identify appropriate action and behavior in a specific bad situation like being in a strange place and running out of money. Detail how to best deal with such a circumstance.

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