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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who arranges with Whelan and sons to order the lumber for the shop and bedroom annex?
(a) Hal Porter
(b) Mr. Strachan
(c) Jean Paget
(d) Joe Harman

3. What does Jean ask about while visiting with the reporter?
(a) the economic picture of the region
(b) local customs
(c) Darwin
(d) Alice Springs

4. Although Jean is not pleased with the finished product, how do the townspeople respond?
(a) they suggest ways of improving
(b) they laugh at Jean
(c) they are amazed
(d) they place large orders

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

6. What effect does Jean's letter have on Strachan?
(a) he gets into a dark mood
(b) he decides she is too much trouble
(c) he becomes alarmed for her safety
(d) he puts it aside and forgets it

7. 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

8. Who is Joe Popcock that Jean meets at her hotel while talking to the ringers?
(a) a friend of Joe Harman's
(b) a shoe maker
(c) the best alligator hunter in Queensland
(d) the last of the kangaroo hunters

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

10. Besides the factory, what else does Jean want?
(a) an apothecary to sell medicines
(b) a small house for her to live in
(c) a cafeteria to serve hot meals
(d) a small shop with items people want

11. How is some of the hot water used?
(a) in a concrete pool inside a hut
(b) to sterilize dishes inthe hotel
(c) to bottle and sell in sydney
(d) to run a generator

12. Where does Art Foster say Harman is now?
(a) Queensland
(b) England
(c) Sydney
(d) Malaya

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

14. How does Jean get a final look at the construction at Kuala Telang?
(a) from the air
(b) with the Bowens
(c) passing by on the train
(d) on an overnight trip

15. What does Harman say about the town of Willstown now that Jean is there?
(a) it will never change no matter what she brings in
(b) it will be where they build a house
(c) it will soon be as good as Alice Springs
(d) it will need a railroad line soon

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mrs. Driver remember about Joe Harman?

2. Why is Helen Curtis hysterical on the radio?

3. When does Harman take Jean to Midhurst to see where he lives?

4. What does jean remember Joe Harman telling her?

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

(see the answer keys)

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