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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV (Pages 211 - 284).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Lady Jane insist on Mathinna learning for the ball?
(a) Italian.
(b) Spanish.
(c) How to sing an aria.
(d) English dances.

2. What does the captain of the sloop tell Mathinna he was told to treat her as?
(a) A saint.
(b) A convict.
(c) A lady.
(d) A savage.

3. Why is Hazel allowed to keep her hair when she arrives at the women's prison in Van Diemen's Land?
(a) She begs to keep it.
(b) It is short hair.
(c) The authorities will sell it for wigs later.
(d) She does not have lice.

4. What prison does Evangeline arrive at in 1840?
(a) Dolcet.
(b) Rinwood.
(c) Newgate.
(d) Framingham.

5. What does Evangeline do almost as soon as she reaches the group cell with the other women?
(a) Vomits.
(b) Screams.
(c) Faints.
(d) Brings out her knife.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Evangeline live and work early in Part I?

2. Who in the Franklin family actually seems to enjoy Mathinna's company?

3. What is Evangeline's assigned identification number on her tin ticket?

4. Who feeds Evangeline's baby for her?

5. How hot does the ship get in the summer?

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