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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Who provides breakfast for Jean and Joe?
(a) Mary, Bourneville's wife
(b) Joe
(c) Moonshine's wife, Palmolive
(d) Lily
2. Besides the well, what has Jean caused to be built?
(a) a ceptic system
(b) a private laundry shed
(c) a small food shop
(d) a meeting hall
3. How does Jean travel across central Australia?
(a) in a Dragonfly, on a mail and passenger run
(b) in a truck delivering supplies
(c) on a slow moving train
(d) in a non-air conditioned bus
4. Who tells Jean about the land as they pass through?
(a) a fellow traveler on the train
(b) a fellow traveler on the bus
(c) a fellow traveler in the taxi
(d) a fellow traveler on the plane
5. What does Strachan research about Jean's ancestors?
(a) to make sure she has no living relatives
(b) to make sure she came from Australian stock
(c) to make sure she is the rightful heir
(d) to make sure there are no Harmans included
6. What does jean remember Joe Harman telling her?
(a) about Alice Sprigs
(b) about Sydney
(c) about walkabouts
(d) about kangaroos
7. When Jean and the Bowens pass by the tree where Joe had been nailed, what do they see?
(a) Malay women gossiping
(b) only the stump of the tree
(c) a plaque in honor of Joe
(d) the nail holes still visible
8. What is amusing in the idea that he cannot believe she has survived three weeks in Willstown?
(a) she appears to be a total city woman
(b) she had survived three years in Malaya
(c) she looks so frail without the tan and the sarong
(d) she had not been able to survive Kuantan
9. Where does Rose Sawyer work?
(a) at the hotel
(b) in the bank
(c) in a dress shop
(d) in the milk bar
10. What concerns Strachan about Joe's visit to his office?
(a) what kind of character he has
(b) how to prove his identity
(c) how to get rid of him
(d) how much he can tell him
11. How is she able to do her project in the hotel?
(a) several women pitch in to help
(b) several men in the town get supplies for her
(c) Rose Sawyer comes to help her
(d) Strachan sends her the materials
12. Who remembers the poor boy Joe Harman who was in the hospital for 3-4 months?
(a) Joyce Bowen
(b) ex-nurse Phyllis Williams
(c) Dr. March
(d) Wilson-Hays
13. How does Jean get a final look at the construction at Kuala Telang?
(a) with the Bowens
(b) from the air
(c) passing by on the train
(d) on an overnight trip
14. Who are David and Joyce Bowen?
(a) people who have Joe Harman's address
(b) people Jean stays with in Kuantan
(c) people who knew Joe Harman
(d) people from the British consul service
15. In the hospital, how had Joe referred to Jean Paget?
(a) Mrs. Boon
(b) Mrs. Jean
(c) Mrs. Paget
(d) Mrs. Horsefal
Short Answer Questions
1. What is the name of the reporter of the Sydney Monitor who offers Paget a lift to the Darwin Hotel?
2. What does Harman say about the town of Willstown now that Jean is there?
3. Visiting Cairns, a prosperous town of some 2,000, what does Jean find waiting for her?
4. What is the Casket?
5. What does Jean see for the first time on the coral island?
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