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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 does Strachan notice and cannot help but look at?

2. What concerns Strachan about Joe's visit to his office?

3. What is the bore?

4. What does Strachan do before sending Topp to Australia?

5. How many girls does Small think would work regularly for £5 a week in a shoe factory?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Briefly describe Jean's shoe making project.

5. Why does Jean fly to Australia?

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay on traditional folk medicine. In your essay write about home cures and medications that were used long before the pharmaceutical business evolved. Express to what extant you think some of those traditional remedies may be useful today. Discuss in your essay the current problem with misuse of prescription drugs and how natural remedies and preventatives do not pose that same problem.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay on morality and religion. Using Willstown as an example, note the high moral standards, especially in regard towards women. Then note that there is not church in the town and the wedding takes place in the Shire Hall. Discuss where you think the morality comes from and whether Willstown actually needs a church as it grows into a town like Alice springs.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay on human kindness. In your essay mention the few Japanese who showed some kindness toward the women and children. Also mention the Malay people and why their sympathy for the group was tempered by fear. Show how even small kindnesses may mean a great deal to the recipient. Conclude with how a kindness may result in something coming back to the giver, like the well Jean Paget had dug for the Malay women.

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