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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) traveling pastors carry messages from place to place
(c) riders carry messages from station to station
(d) mail plane pilots bring messages to town

2. Where does Jean discover Joe Harman is?
(a) in America studying ranching
(b) in New Zealand buying cattle
(c) in England on holiday, due back late October
(d) in Malaya visiting nurse Williams

3. Besides the factory, what else does Jean want?
(a) a cafeteria to serve hot meals
(b) an apothecary to sell medicines
(c) a small house for her to live in
(d) a small shop with items people want

4. How does Jean travel across central Australia?
(a) in a Dragonfly, on a mail and passenger run
(b) in a non-air conditioned bus
(c) in a truck delivering supplies
(d) on a slow moving train

5. What does Strachan do before sending Topp to Australia?
(a) has a background check done on her
(b) finds the cheapest fare to Australia he can locate
(c) takes her to his club to check out her manners
(d) interviews her to be sure she is a good manager

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Lily?

2. What makes recruiting for the shop easy?

3. Where are Jean and Harman finally reunited?

4. How is some of the hot water used?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Briefly describe the town of Cairns.

2. How is Jean helped in finding out information about Joe Harman?

3. Why are the people anxious for Jean to open a shoe factory in Willstown?

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

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

6. What is Jean's cover story about why she is looking for Harman?

7. After confiding with the Sawyers her real reason for looking up Joe Harman, what is Jean's denial?

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

9. What is going on at Midhurst when news arrives about Don Curtis' disappearance?

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

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