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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Besides the well, what has Jean caused to be built?
(a) a ceptic system
(b) a small food shop
(c) a meeting hall
(d) a private laundry shed

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

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

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

5. What is served at tea time which shocks Jean?
(a) an enormous raost and plum pudding
(b) a steak and two fried eggs
(c) baked beans and pork
(d) hard bread and butter

6. What gives Jean the idea of making shoes?
(a) watching Australians going barefoot
(b) her own personal shoe fetish
(c) her past experience working at Pack and Levy
(d) seeing how expensive shoes are in Australia

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

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

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

10. 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 it is hot in the bar
(c) because she cannot drink lemonade in the bar
(d) because Joe is not there

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

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

13. Why does Sugamo order that Harman be removed from the tree and taken to a hospital?
(a) Sugamo has a change of heart and remorseful
(b) Sugamo cannot fulfill his last wish and thus show Bushido
(c) Sugamo wants the natives to see his kindness
(d) Sugamo fears he might be reprimanded for torturing a prisonerd

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Jean travel across central Australia?

3. What report does Sugamo receive about Harman after the women have left?

4. What does Strachan research about Jean's ancestors?

5. Who tells Jean about the land as they pass through?

(see the answer keys)

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