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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 is the Casket?
(a) the combination hotel and mortuary
(b) the mail plane to Queensland
(c) the Australian lottery
(d) the slang name for Willstown

2. Who remembers the poor boy Joe Harman who was in the hospital for 3-4 months?
(a) Wilson-Hays
(b) Dr. March
(c) Joyce Bowen
(d) ex-nurse Phyllis Williams

3. At Midhurst where does Harman sleep and do most of his living?
(a) in the living room
(b) in the kitchen
(c) on the verandah
(d) in the cattle barn

4. After another day on the mail plane, where does Jean end up?
(a) Cloncurry
(b) Willstown
(c) back in Alice springs
(d) Queensbury

5. How does Jean travel across central Australia?
(a) in a truck delivering supplies
(b) on a slow moving train
(c) in a Dragonfly, on a mail and passenger run
(d) in a non-air conditioned bus

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jean make in her hotel room?

2. What is Jean's impression of Alice Springs?

3. What effect does Jean's letter have on Strachan?

4. What is the name of the reporter of the Sydney Monitor who offers Paget a lift to the Darwin Hotel?

5. Without a phone, how do people get information?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the opening ceremony for the well and laundry room Jean has provided the village.

2. Briefly describe the town of Cairns.

3. While Jean is looking for Joe in Australia, what is Joe doing?

4. Why does Jean fly to Australia?

5. How is Jean helped in finding out information about Joe Harman?

6. In Daly Waters, describe what Jean sees for the first time.

7. How does Jean find Midhurst where Joe lives and works?

8. Briefly describe Jean's shoe making project.

9. What is the bore and what use do the people make of it?

10. Why is it easy to recruit new workers for the shoe factory?

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