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

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

3. Besides the factory, what else does Jean want?

4. What is the dying wish Harman requests when he talks to Sugamo?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. Briefly describe the town of Cairns.

8. While Jean is looking for Joe in Australia, what is Joe doing?

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

10. Briefly describe Jean's shoe making project.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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 3

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.

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