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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What concerns Jean that she cannot buy in Willstown?
(a) beer, leather, and fuel
(b) newspapers, bottled water, and bread
(c) eggs, meat, and cheese
(d) fresh fruit, vegetables, and milk

2. What makes recruiting for the shop easy?
(a) ringers start coming to town more often
(b) parents make their daughters go to work
(c) air conditioning, music, uniforms, and spending money
(d) there are more girls than Jean once thought

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

4. 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

5. What does Jean see for the first time on the coral island?
(a) the nail scars on his hands
(b) the way he walks with a limp
(c) the size of his shoulders
(d) the puckered scars on Joe's back

6. What has Jean purchased for her Sunday visit at Midhurst?
(a) vegetables
(b) art supplies
(c) riding clothes
(d) fresh steaks

7. What does Strachan notice and cannot help but look at?
(a) Joe's dark brown eyes
(b) Joe's scarred hands
(c) Joe's thin physique
(d) Joe's round face

8. What does Strachan agree to allow Harman to do?
(a) prove his identity
(b) write a letter he will forward to Jean
(c) find out where Jean is
(d) stay at his club

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

10. What does Jean treat herself to in Alice Springs?
(a) an ice cream soda
(b) some fish and chips
(c) a hamburger
(d) an air conditioned room

11. Who shows up at Strachan's office a week after Jean's letter arrives?
(a) a Chinese man, Bun Tai Lin
(b) a messenger from the Australian Embassy
(c) Joe Harman
(d) Jean

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

13. What is the dying wish Harman requests when he talks to Sugamo?
(a) a steak and potatoes
(b) a bath and new clothes
(c) a suicide pill
(d) a chicken and a beer

14. 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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does jean remember Joe Harman telling her?

2. What does Jean make in her hotel room?

3. Who finds Curtis and stays with him until help comes?

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

5. Visiting Cairns, a prosperous town of some 2,000, what does Jean find waiting for her?

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