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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happened to female convicts on the transport ship for repeated offenses?
(a) They were sentenced to scrub the decks.
(b) They were sentenced to scrub pots.
(c) Their heads were roughly shaved.
(d) They were thrown overboard.

2. Who is one of the first people who speaks kindly to Evangeline when she arrives in prison?
(a) Olive.
(b) Hazel.
(c) Laurel.
(d) Reyna.

3. What does Cecil give Evangeline that begins all of Evangeline's troubles?
(a) A painting.
(b) A lamp.
(c) A valuable ruby ring.
(d) A car.

4. What book does Evangeline tell Hazel her hometown reminds her of?
(a) Wuthering Heights.
(b) Pride and Prejudice.
(c) Rob Roy.
(d) The Tempest.

5. What other convict does Olive make friends with on the ship?
(a) Liza.
(b) Rina.
(c) Olga.
(d) Edith.

6. Who used to sing Mathinna to sleep on Flinders?
(a) Timeo.
(b) Teanic.
(c) Wangro.
(d) Palle.

7. What is Hazel skilled in?
(a) Midwifery.
(b) Accounting.
(c) Cooking.
(d) Gardening.

8. What is the name of Mathinna's pet?
(a) Waluka.
(b) Mowgla.
(c) Harry.
(d) Hertherington.

9. After her sentencing, what line from a work of literature does Evangeline accidentally utter aloud?
(a) Our little lives are rounded with a sleep.
(b) Et tu, Brutus?
(c) Hell is empty, and all the devils are here.
(d) A penny saved is a penny earned.

10. Which maid helps Mathinna get settled at the governor's mansion?
(a) Hellie.
(b) Hazel.
(c) Sarah.
(d) Olive.

11. What is Evangeline's sentence?
(a) 20 years in Newgate.
(b) 5 years and time served.
(c) 14 years and transport to Van Diemen's Land.
(d) 10 years in Hartfordshire.

12. What do white people call the island of Lutruwita?
(a) Flinders.
(b) Wybalenna.
(c) Van Diemen's Land.
(d) Cosco.

13. Where is Hazel from?
(a) London.
(b) Glasgow.
(c) Edinburgh.
(d) Hartfordshire.

14. What is the name of the transport ship that Evangeline and the others take to Australia?
(a) The Borgia.
(b) The Ferret.
(c) The Agnamemnon.
(d) The Medea.

15. What does Hazel use for many of her remedies?
(a) Water.
(b) Prayers.
(c) Magic.
(d) Herbs.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Evangeline do almost as soon as she reaches the group cell with the other women?

2. What does the captain of the sloop tell Mathinna he used to kill?

3. What does Evangeline help Hazel with on the ship?

4. What had Evangeline's father done for a living before he died?

5. What does Mathinna's mother give her that Mathinna cherishes?

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