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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 is the third problem Margery encounters when they arrive in Noumea in Chapter 18?
(a) Her luggage has been lost.
(b) She forgot why she was there.
(c) She falls ill.
(d) She and Enid get lost.

2. What does Enid wear while she cleans the bungalow in Chapter 25?
(a) Margery's best frock.
(b) Just her undies.
(c) A leopard print bikini.
(d) A French maid uniform.

3. What word does Margery use to try to describe her face on her passport application?
(a) Buxom.
(b) Confusing.
(c) Intelligent.
(d) Fierce.

4. What item does Enid keep close to her at all times during her and Margery's trip?
(a) Her wedding ring.
(b) Her passport.
(c) A red valise.
(d) Her pink purse.

5. What did Margery do during their meeting that upset Mr. Mundic?
(a) She acted like she was smarter than him.
(b) She offered to pay the tab.
(c) She did not let him talk.
(d) She laughed at him when he mentioned snakes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Margery teaching her students at the start of Chapter 2?

2. What does Mundic begin to do after his first meeting with Margery?

3. When Margery applied for her position, what did the ad specify?

4. Who is getting closer to New Caledonia at the start of Chapter 24?

5. What word is used to describe New Caledonia according to Horace Blake's pocket guide in Chapter 18?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Mundic manage to board the ship Margery and Enid are on in Chapter 9?

2. How does Margery feel when Miss Hamilton refuses the job as her assistant after finding out what happened at her school?

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

4. What news does Margery's father receive after showing her the golden beetle and what does he do in response?

5. What happens in their cabin on the boat that makes Margery decide she does not trust Enid and will find a new assistant?

6. Why does Margery tell Enid that "the post is no longer available" (42) when she first meets her at Fenchurch Station in Chapter 7?

7. How does Mundic's mother react to his bullying as a child and what does she tell him about the "flame inside of him" (96)?

8. What does Margery think when she sees the golden beetle in her father's book Incredible Creatures, and what does she decide she will do after her father leaves the room?

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

10. Why do Enid and Margery have to sleep in their jeep the first day they arrive in Poum?

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