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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. Who is playing Sergeant Kite?
(a) Robert Sideway.
(b) John Arscott.
(c) Ketch Freeman.
(d) Black Caesar.

2. How old was Mary Brenham when she quit school?
(a) 11.
(b) 10.
(c) 9.
(d) 12.

3. In Scene 3, how many convicts are found guilty of stealing from the colony's stores?
(a) 2.
(b) 4.
(c) 3.
(d) 5.

4. In Act One: Scene 5, what does Sideway steal from Ralph as they are talking?
(a) Handkerchief.
(b) Letter.
(c) Glove.
(d) Pen.

5. What officers arrive in Act One: Scene 11 during the play rehearsal?
(a) Campbell and Johnson.
(b) Phillip and Tench.
(c) Johnston and Dawes.
(d) Ross and Campbell.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Mary doing at the beginning of Act One: Scene 10?

2. What book does John Wisehammer say that his father found in a house he was clearing out?

3. Who is the new community named after?

4. What does Phillip name the new community?

5. What bird does Collins see in Scene 3?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Wisehammer say about the word country?

2. What are the authorities doing at the beginning of Act One: Scene 6?

3. Who is for and against the play, and who has the final word about whether to allow the performance?

4. In Act One, Scene 3, what is a common punishment, and how does it affect the person being punished?

5. What did Wisehammer's father used to do, and what did his father find that particularly interested him?

6. Who are the men who stole from the ship's stores?

7. Can Dabby Bryant read, and how does that affect her getting a part in the play?

8. Why does Harry Brewer say that he could have been one of the convicts?

9. What news do Ross and Campbell bring in Act One, Scene 11?

10. How does an aborigine describe the arrival of the first convict fleet in Botany Bay on January 20, 1788?

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