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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 the Casket?

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

3. What does Strachan research about Jean's ancestors?

4. What does Harman say about the town of Willstown now that Jean is there?

5. After another day on the mail plane, where does Jean end up?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How is Jean helped in finding out information about Joe Harman?

3. Briefly describe Jean's shoe making project.

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. What consideration do both Jean and Joe have about each other?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write a critique of A TOWN LIKE ALICE. Evaluate Nevil Shute as a story teller. Say what you think about his ability to describe people and places. Conclude with your recommendation as to who should read the book.

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 entitled The Strength of Miss Jean Paget. In your essay point out the strengths she exhibited while leading the women to safety as well as the challenges she faced and conquered in Willstown. Use her example to show that great deeds can be done by ordinary people. Compare her strength with people who have done extraordinary things in the face of peril, like the heroes of 9/11 in New York City.

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