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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 begin wearing?

2. Who is in the photograph Jean finds and shows to the dying sergeant?

3. What happens to Harman after he steals the chickens?

4. What is the length of Jean's funds being held in trust?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What hope is held out for their removal to Kuantan?

3. What is the Japanese solution for dealing with the women and children?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay on traditional folk medicine. In your essay write about home cures and medications that were used long before the pharmaceutical business evolved. Express to what extant you think some of those traditional remedies may be useful today. Discuss in your essay the current problem with misuse of prescription drugs and how natural remedies and preventatives do not pose that same problem.

Essay Topic 2

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.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay entitled The Strength of Miss Jean Paget. In your essay point out the strengths she exhibited while leading the women to safety as well as the challenges she faced and conquered in Willstown. Use her example to show that great deeds can be done by ordinary people. Compare her strength with people who have done extraordinary things in the face of peril, like the heroes of 9/11 in New York City.

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