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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 Olive say about the fate of her baby?
(a) It was Hazel's fault.
(b) She is better off.
(c) It was God's punishment.
(d) It would never have happened in the doctor knew what he was doing.

2. What did Liza do to be put in prison?
(a) Prostitution.
(b) She killed someone.
(c) She stole money from the business she worked for as its accountant.
(d) She stole repeatedly from shops.

3. What does Evangeline use to defend the person who is being assaulted in Part III?
(a) A piece of wood.
(b) A gun.
(c) A knife.
(d) A whip.

4. What does Hazel do with the scraps of fabric she collects from her job?
(a) Sells them in town.
(b) Makes new clothes for herself.
(c) Trades them in jail for extra food.
(d) Makes a quilt for Ruby.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Evangeline feel after defending the person who was being assaulted?

2. What does Olive warn Hazel about in Part IV?

3. Who does Dr. Dunne put on Ruby's birth certificate as her mother?

4. What does Buck do to Evangeline just after she gives birth?

5. What is the crime for unwed pregnancy at the prison in Van Diemen's Land?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Lady Franklin insist Mathinna must be taught before her big party in Part IV?

2. What happens to Waluka, and how does Mathinna react?

3. What is Buck's punishment for what happens to Evangeline?

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

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

6. What happens when Hazel is processed into the prison in Australia that breaks her heart?

7. What does Mathinna think of Eleanor Franklin, her new "sister"?

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

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

10. What happens to Olive's baby on the Medea?

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