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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When does Harman take Jean to Midhurst to see where he lives?
(a) during a Sunday lull
(b) during the middle of the night
(c) for the first week in December
(d) after they are married

2. Who tells Jean about the land as they pass through?
(a) a fellow traveler in the taxi
(b) a fellow traveler on the train
(c) a fellow traveler on the bus
(d) a fellow traveler on the plane

3. Who remembers the poor boy Joe Harman who was in the hospital for 3-4 months?
(a) Joyce Bowen
(b) Wilson-Hays
(c) ex-nurse Phyllis Williams
(d) Dr. March

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

5. Why does Jean sit on the steps outside the bar while Whelan seals the contract with the Shire Clerk?
(a) to protect her reputation
(b) because Joe is not there
(c) because it is hot in the bar
(d) because she cannot drink lemonade in the bar

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

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

8. 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 put their town on the map
(c) to keep their daughters from running away to the city
(d) to have something to brag about

9. What is the bore?
(a) a pipe releasing hot underground water
(b) the man who keeps trying to court Jean
(c) the drill used for finding water
(d) a local Aboriginese servant

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

11. Who provides breakfast for Jean and Joe?
(a) Moonshine's wife, Palmolive
(b) Lily
(c) Joe
(d) Mary, Bourneville's wife

12. What is the name of the reporter of the Sydney Monitor who offers Paget a lift to the Darwin Hotel?
(a) Art Foster
(b) Stuart Hopkinson
(c) Daly Waters
(d) Hal Porter

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

14. What are the girls betting on in the shoe factory?
(a) how long the sir conditioner will last
(b) how soon before they get pay raises
(c) how long the shop will stay in business
(d) how long before Jean and Joe marry

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Jean write to Mr. Strachan about her plans?

3. How does Jean travel to Alice Springs?

4. What does Harman say about the town of Willstown now that Jean is there?

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

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