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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Enid buy in Aden, which Mundic finds suspicious in Chapter 11?
(a) A wig.
(b) A new coat.
(c) A pack of cigarettes.
(d) A radio.

2. What does the letter Margery finds under her door in Chapter 3 from her school say?
(a) She can come back to work when she is ready.
(b) She can have her job back if she returns the boots.
(c) The police have been notified of her theft.
(d) They understand her stress and would like to help.

3. What does Mrs. Pope say about New Caledonia when Margery talks to her at the garden party in Chapter 21?
(a) It is a hellish place.
(b) It is quite vast.
(c) It is a paradise.
(d) It is very small.

4. What does Enid tell Margery when they find their bungalow broken and filled with trash in Chapter 25?
(a) She has seen worse in the war.
(b) She cannot stay there.
(c) She loves it.
(d) She will sleep in the jeep.

5. What does Enid tell everyone on the boat about Margery?
(a) She is a college teacher.
(b) She stole lacrosse boots.
(c) She is a millionaire.
(d) She is from the Natural History Museum.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do the boiler men who find Mundic decide not to turn him in and help him stay on the ship instead?

2. Why does Miss Hamilton ultimately refuse Margery's job offer?

3. In whose letters does Margery think she has found proof the golden beetle exists?

4. How does Enid say her parents had died when she was young?

5. What does Enid tell Margery to do in Chapter 23 when Margery complains of how fast Enid drives?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Taylor react to seeing Margery in their hut when she goes there to find Enid in Chapter 14?

2. What are the four problems Margery encounters when they first arrive at New Caledonia in Chapter 18?

3. What does Enid tell Margery she plans to do when they arrive in Brisbane, and how does Margery feel about this?

4. What happens when Mundic arrives in Brisbane? How does he end up heading to New Caledonia?

5. How does Enid work to improve the state of the bungalow in Chapter 25?

6. Describe Margery's aunts Hazel and Lorna whom she moved in with after her father's death.

7. What does Mundic do to Margery after their first meeting?

8. How are Enid and Margery's experiences different during their first weeks on the ship?

9. Describe the letters Enid Pretty writes Margery to inquire about the job Margery posted in the newspaper.

10. How does Margery ultimately realize her brother's died in 1914?

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