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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Jean's impression of Alice Springs?

2. Who remembers the poor boy Joe Harman who was in the hospital for 3-4 months?

3. How much does Jean request Strachan release from her trust fund?

4. Why do townspeople hope that Jean will put in a shoe manufacturing business?

5. Who are David and Joyce Bowen?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the opening ceremony for the well and laundry room Jean has provided the village.

2. Briefly describe Jean's shoe making project.

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. Briefly describe poddy dodging.

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay about vocabulary differences in English speaking countries. Use Australian words such as bore, cattle station, walkabout, and others in the novel to illustrate the point that language changes from culture to culture. Note in your essay that English as the second language of the world is constantly being altered by the introduction of usage influenced by other languages. End with your opinion of what is good or bad about different meanings for the same words in other countries.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay on achieving your dreams. Note in your essay how Jean Paget fulfilled her dreams through hard work and good advice from others. In your essay discuss the difference between wishful thinking and dreams followed up by planning and hard work.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay on survival. Base your essay on the survival methods of Jean Paget and the women as they are marched all over Malaya. Explain what people will do to survive that they would not ordinarily do. Put yourself into a survival situation like an earthquake or famine and tell how you would prepare for the emergency and how you would handle it when it happens.

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