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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What prevents Jean from spending a lot of time at Midhurst?
(a) Joe is away a great deal of the time
(b) the rural code of morals
(c) the shop is too busy
(d) she has no transportation

2. What makes Jean angry at the bank?
(a) the heat
(b) the poor security
(c) the time it takes to get her money
(d) the flies

3. Who are David and Joyce Bowen?
(a) people who knew Joe Harman
(b) people from the British consul service
(c) people Jean stays with in Kuantan
(d) people who have Joe Harman's address

4. Who tells Jean about the land as they pass through?
(a) a fellow traveler in the taxi
(b) a fellow traveler on the train
(c) a fellow traveler on the bus
(d) a fellow traveler on the plane

5. What makes recruiting for the shop easy?
(a) ringers start coming to town more often
(b) there are more girls than Jean once thought
(c) air conditioning, music, uniforms, and spending money
(d) parents make their daughters go to work

6. Why is there such a turnover of ringers in the Willstown area?
(a) men do not stay because the girls all leave to the city
(b) the weather is hot and there is no rainfall
(c) the managers are all too hard to work for
(d) the wages are low and there are no shops

7. Where does Rose Sawyer work?
(a) in the bank
(b) in a dress shop
(c) at the hotel
(d) in the milk bar

8. What concerns Jean that she cannot buy in Willstown?
(a) beer, leather, and fuel
(b) newspapers, bottled water, and bread
(c) fresh fruit, vegetables, and milk
(d) eggs, meat, and cheese

9. How much does Jean request Strachan release from her trust fund?
(a) £5,000
(b) £3,500
(c) £10,000
(d) £2,000

10. Why do townspeople hope that Jean will put in a shoe manufacturing business?
(a) to keep their daughters from running away to the city
(b) to put their town on the map
(c) to have something to brag about
(d) to encourage other businesses to come to the area

11. What does Jean learn from 18-year-old Rose Sawyer?
(a) the aboriginese of Australia
(b) the loneliness of Alice Springs
(c) the distances in Australia
(d) the history of Alice Springs

12. What does Jean write to Mr. Strachan about her plans?
(a) she is headed for New Zealand
(b) she is contacting the Australian Embassy
(c) she is taking a ship to Sydney
(d) she is flying to Darwin

13. In Darwin, what does she say Joe Harman is and why she is looking for him?
(a) a man her uncle wants to run his ranch
(b) a second cousin she is looking up for her worried uncle
(c) a creditor she wants to repay a loan to
(d) a friend of her brother who was killed in the war

14. What does Jean treat herself to in Alice Springs?
(a) some fish and chips
(b) an air conditioned room
(c) an ice cream soda
(d) a hamburger

15. What does Jean make in her hotel room?
(a) a special hat
(b) an aligator bag
(c) three pair of shoes
(d) a new dress

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Sugamo order that Harman be removed from the tree and taken to a hospital?

2. What happens on Boxing Day?

3. When Jean and the Bowens pass by the tree where Joe had been nailed, what do they see?

4. How does Shute let the reader know that Palmolive is not a great cook?

5. What does Strachan research about Jean's ancestors?

(see the answer keys)

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