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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 Hazel wear in prison during her first weeks to make her feel better?
(a) Her grandmother's ring.
(b) A hat from her mother.
(c) Warm leggings.
(d) Evangeline's ticket.

2. Who in the Franklin family actually seems to enjoy Mathinna's company?
(a) Lady Jane.
(b) Lady Elderberry.
(c) Sir Kevin.
(d) Sir. John.

3. What does Evangeline say when she is asked what she will name her baby?
(a) She will name her after her father.
(b) She will name her Hazel.
(c) She will name her after her mother.
(d) She had not dared to think that far ahead.

4. How does Mathinna find out the Franklins have gone on holiday without her?
(a) They send Sarah to tell her they have gone.
(b) They send Hazel to tell her they have gone.
(c) They send a note to tell her they have gone.
(d) She wakes up to find them gone.

5. Why does Olive at first refuse to be Ruby's wet nurse?
(a) She does not like babies.
(b) She thinks it will leave her at a disadvantage for privileges.
(c) She is feeling ill.
(d) She does not want to have to nurse many babies all day.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Mathinna spend as little time as possible?

2. What follows the ship soon after the person who dies is delivered back to the ocean?

3. What ailment did Dr. Dunne's father misdiagnose?

4. Who witnesses what Buck does to Evangeline?

5. Why does Hazel beg Olive to become Ruby's wet nurse after her first few weeks in the nursery?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where does Hazel get hired to work and how does she end up getting along there?

2. Why does Olive advise Hazel to watch herself and be careful at the prison?

3. How does Hazel feel when Evangeline dies?

4. What happens to Evangeline right after her baby is born?

5. What seed of doubt does Olive plant in Evangeline's mind about Cecil?

6. Why does Hazel beg Olive to act as Ruby's wet nurse?

7. What transgression does Mathinna commit in Part IV that results in the Franklins' shunning her?

8. What does Mathinna tell visitors at the Franklins' Sunday lunch that she then says she is lying about, even though she is not?

9. What are Hazel's first impressions of Van Diemen's Land?

10. What does Hazel hide for Evangeline?

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