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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 Jean see for the first time on the coral island?

2. Who provides breakfast for Jean and Joe?

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

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Briefly describe Jean's shoe making project.

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay on the importance of gathering facts and making plans before attempting a project. Use Jean Paget and Mr. Strachan in your essay as examples. Do not forget to mention the planning that went into his trip to Australia. Make this essay a comment on the potential pitfalls of impulsive action. Some examples you might want to use include people who go out in boats without flotation devices, hikers who go out without water and first aid supplies, etc.

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 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.

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