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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. How does Shute let the reader know that Palmolive is not a great cook?
(a) the steak is burned
(b) the eggs are runny
(c) the coffee is too strong
(d) the steak is too tough to cut

10. Without a phone, how do people get information?
(a) the radio network operator connects to 50 stations
(b) traveling pastors carry messages from place to place
(c) mail plane pilots bring messages to town
(d) riders carry messages from station to station

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

12. What does Strachan do before sending Topp to Australia?
(a) interviews her to be sure she is a good manager
(b) takes her to his club to check out her manners
(c) finds the cheapest fare to Australia he can locate
(d) has a background check done on her

13. What does Strachan send to Jean in Willstown?
(a) a letter of credit for £5,000
(b) a box of the latest English novels
(c) a large air conditioning unit
(d) a commercial washing machine

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the Casket?

3. Why is Helen Curtis hysterical on the radio?

4. Who is Lily?

5. How much does Jean request Strachan release from her trust fund?

(see the answer keys)

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