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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. What does Jean learn from 18-year-old Rose Sawyer?
(a) the loneliness of Alice Springs
(b) the aboriginese of Australia
(c) the history of Alice Springs
(d) the distances in Australia

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

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

4. Who is Joe Popcock that Jean meets at her hotel while talking to the ringers?
(a) the best alligator hunter in Queensland
(b) a friend of Joe Harman's
(c) a shoe maker
(d) the last of the kangaroo hunters

5. After another day on the mail plane, where does Jean end up?
(a) back in Alice springs
(b) Queensbury
(c) Cloncurry
(d) Willstown

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the girls betting on in the shoe factory?

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

3. How does Jean get a final look at the construction at Kuala Telang?

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

5. Visiting Cairns, a prosperous town of some 2,000, what does Jean find waiting for her?

Short Essay Questions

1. Briefly describe poddy dodging.

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

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

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

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

6. Why is it easy to recruit new workers for the shoe factory?

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

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

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

10. Briefly describe the town of Cairns.

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