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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What has Jean purchased for her Sunday visit at Midhurst?

2. Why is Helen Curtis hysterical on the radio?

3. Who tells Jean Paget this story?

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

5. Who is Joe Popcock that Jean meets at her hotel while talking to the ringers?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Jean fly to Australia?

2. How does Jean find Midhurst where Joe lives and works?

3. Briefly describe poddy dodging.

4. What is the bore and what use do the people make of it?

5. What does Jean discover about Harman in Alice Springs?

6. Why are reporters waiting around the airport at Darwin?

7. Learning in Alice Springs that Joe is all right and able to work, why does Jean not just return to England?

8. In Daly Waters, describe what Jean sees for the first time.

9. Describe the opening ceremony for the well and laundry room Jean has provided the village.

10. How was Joe Harman able to travel to England?

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