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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 is the Casket?
(a) the slang name for Willstown
(b) the mail plane to Queensland
(c) the Australian lottery
(d) the combination hotel and mortuary

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

3. How much does Jean request Strachan release from her trust fund?
(a) £5,000
(b) £3,500
(c) £2,000
(d) £10,000

4. Who remembers the poor boy Joe Harman who was in the hospital for 3-4 months?
(a) Wilson-Hays
(b) ex-nurse Phyllis Williams
(c) Dr. March
(d) Joyce Bowen

5. Who is Lily?
(a) Joe Hamand's sister
(b) a young blue and white wallaby
(c) the cook at Midhurst
(d) Joe Hamand's favorite dog

Short Answer Questions

1. Besides the well, what has Jean caused to be built?

2. How does Shute let the reader know that Palmolive is not a great cook?

3. What does Strachan send to Jean in Willstown?

4. What does Jean see for the first time on the coral island?

5. What does Strachan agree to allow Harman to do?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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