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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does Jean travel to Alice Springs?
(a) by train
(b) by plane
(c) by car
(d) by bus

3. What happens on Boxing Day?
(a) the first shoes go out to London
(b) Joe falls and breaks his leg
(c) Jean closes the milk bar
(d) the torrential rains come

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

5. What does jean remember Joe Harman telling her?
(a) about Sydney
(b) about walkabouts
(c) about kangaroos
(d) about Alice Sprigs

6. Who finds Curtis and stays with him until help comes?
(a) Whelan and his sons
(b) Joe Harman
(c) Johnnie Walker
(d) Art Foster

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 have something to brag about
(d) to keep their daughters from running away to the city

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

9. How much does Jean request Strachan release from her trust fund?
(a) £3,500
(b) £5,000
(c) £2,000
(d) £10,000

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Shute let the reader know that Palmolive is not a great cook?

2. How many girls does Small think would work regularly for £5 a week in a shoe factory?

3. How does Jean get a final look at the construction at Kuala Telang?

4. After another day on the mail plane, where does Jean end up?

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

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