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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 prevents Jean from spending a lot of time at Midhurst?

2. How does Jean travel across central Australia?

3. In Darwin, what does she say Joe Harman is and why she is looking for him?

4. Although Jean is not pleased with the finished product, how do the townspeople respond?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. Briefly describe poddy dodging.

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay about someone you know or know of whom you would classify as a hero. Use the character of Joe Harman from the novel as a guideline as to what makes a hero. Identify several types of heroes such as firemen, EMS paramedics, teachers, military personnel and explain how each of them may perform heroic deeds.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay about responding to emergency situations. Using the rescue of Don Curtis as an example, include how people often come together to solve problems during an emergency situation. Some examples might include ones like a man who lifts a car to rescue his child when under normal circumstances he could not do it. Either personalize your essay with an example when you responded to an emergency situation or that of a person you know who acted on impulse in such a situation. Apply your theme to being prepared to respond like taking CPR classes or water safety classes.

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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