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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. Where does Art Foster say Harman is now?
(a) England
(b) Sydney
(c) Malaya
(d) Queensland

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

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

4. What report does Sugamo receive about Harman after the women have left?
(a) he is still alive
(b) he escaped
(c) he died during the night
(d) his body was stolen

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jean ask about while visiting with the reporter?

2. Without a phone, how do people get information?

3. Who arranges with Whelan and sons to order the lumber for the shop and bedroom annex?

4. How does Jean travel to Alice Springs?

5. What is the dying wish Harman requests when he talks to Sugamo?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Briefly describe Jean's shoe making project.

4. Describe the outback custom Jean learns that shows her determination to fit in and settle there.

5. What consideration do both Jean and Joe have about each other?

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

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

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

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

10. Explain what Jean learns on her trip to Kuala Telang to have a well dug for the women there.

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