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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Strachan research about Jean's ancestors?
(a) to make sure she has no living relatives
(b) to make sure there are no Harmans included
(c) to make sure she is the rightful heir
(d) to make sure she came from Australian stock

2. How is she able to do her project in the hotel?
(a) several men in the town get supplies for her
(b) several women pitch in to help
(c) Strachan sends her the materials
(d) Rose Sawyer comes to help her

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

4. Who is the former A.T.S. sergeant during the war, stationed in Egypt, Topp perfect for the task of training the factory workers?
(a) Aggie Topp
(b) Judy Small
(c) Elsie Peters
(d) Rose Sawyer

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

6. When Jean and the Bowens pass by the tree where Joe had been nailed, what do they see?
(a) the nail holes still visible
(b) only the stump of the tree
(c) a plaque in honor of Joe
(d) Malay women gossiping

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

8. In the hospital, how had Joe referred to Jean Paget?
(a) Mrs. Boon
(b) Mrs. Paget
(c) Mrs. Horsefal
(d) Mrs. Jean

9. What is amusing in the idea that he cannot believe she has survived three weeks in Willstown?
(a) she had survived three years in Malaya
(b) she looks so frail without the tan and the sarong
(c) she appears to be a total city woman
(d) she had not been able to survive Kuantan

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

11. Where does Jean discover Joe Harman is?
(a) in New Zealand buying cattle
(b) in America studying ranching
(c) in England on holiday, due back late October
(d) in Malaya visiting nurse Williams

12. What concerns Strachan about Joe's visit to his office?
(a) how to prove his identity
(b) how much he can tell him
(c) what kind of character he has
(d) how to get rid of him

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

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

15. Where are Jean and Harman finally reunited?
(a) at the airport in Cairns
(b) at the construction site in Willstown
(c) at the train station in Rockhampton
(d) on the dock at Brisbane

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Strachan do before sending Topp to Australia?

2. What are the girls betting on in the shoe factory?

3. How does Jean travel across central Australia?

4. What does Strachan send to Jean in Willstown?

5. Who tells Jean Paget this story?

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