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

2. What does Jean see for the first time on the coral island?
(a) the way he walks with a limp
(b) the size of his shoulders
(c) the puckered scars on Joe's back
(d) the nail scars on his hands

3. What is the dying wish Harman requests when he talks to Sugamo?
(a) a suicide pill
(b) a bath and new clothes
(c) a steak and potatoes
(d) a chicken and a beer

4. What has Jean purchased for her Sunday visit at Midhurst?
(a) vegetables
(b) art supplies
(c) riding clothes
(d) fresh steaks

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who shows up at Strachan's office a week after Jean's letter arrives?

2. Why does Jean sit on the steps outside the bar while Whelan seals the contract with the Shire Clerk?

3. What happens on Boxing Day?

4. Where does Rose Sawyer work?

5. Why does Sugamo order that Harman be removed from the tree and taken to a hospital?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why does Jean stay outside the bar while Joe and Whelan discuss leasing agreements with the Shire Clerk?

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

5. Briefly describe Jean's shoe making project.

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

7. Why does Harman not recognize Jean at first when she goes to the airport to meet him?

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

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

10. Why does Jean fly to Australia?

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