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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jean Paget present to Strachan when she arrives in his office?
(a) a basket of fruit
(b) a letter from her attorney
(c) proof of her identity
(d) fresh baked biscuits

2. What occurs with baby Robin after the other Holland children all die?
(a) he returns to Eileen
(b) he gets a fever but survives
(c) he prefers to stay with Jean
(d) he starts to walk

3. Beyond the annual trust funds, what is Strachan authorized to do for Jean?
(a) he can reinvest her basic funds
(b) he can adjust the amount for inflation
(c) he can help her get bank loans
(d) he can release some of her principle

4. Who is in the photograph Jean finds and shows to the dying sergeant?
(a) a beautiful Japanese woman
(b) children playing on a beach
(c) a woman and four children
(d) the Emperor of Japan

5. What does Jean learn at an early age that is very helpful to her during the war?
(a) to speak Malay
(b) to give first aid
(c) to survive off the land
(d) to speak Japanese

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the other ladies in the group do to follow Jean's example?

2. Who gives them homemade medicine for the dengue fever?

3. Why does the lawyer Strachan not remember Douglas Macfadden at first?

4. What is the unusual situation of the women when the sergeant dies?

5. How does Jean classify her time during World War II?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why is Strachan more or less retired?

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

6. How does Strachan arrange to meet Jean Paget?

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

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

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

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

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