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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is the relationship between Cecil and Mrs. Whitstone?
2. What does Cecil give Evangeline that begins all of Evangeline's troubles?
3. Who is Mathinna's stepfather?
4. Which sailor is particularly mean-spirited on the ship Evangeline takes to Australia?
5. How old is Evangeline when she is arrested?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does Mathinna hide in the bush for days in Part I?
2. How does Evangeline come to be a governess for the Whitstone family?
3. Who are some of the first people to show Evangeline and the other female convicts some kindness?
4. What are the few things Evangeline is given when she is booked at Newgate Prison?
5. Which sailor is abusive towards the women, and how does he treat them on the Medea?
6. What are the words inscribed over the arch of Newgate Prison?
7. What are some of the most grotesque things in Lady Jane Franklin's collection?
8. Why does Sarah tell Mathinna that Lady Franklin got rid of the last tribal child she took in?
9. What does Dr. Dunne, the ship's surgeon, seem to think of Evangeline when he first meets her?
10. What does Mathinna think of the clothes Lady Franklin has set out for her?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How does Ruby Dunne's personal and professional success as an adult run counter to the confines, restrictions, and limitations of the British hierarchical class strata of the time? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your answers.
Essay Topic 2
What are the series of actions that lead to the authorities in the Cascades discovering that Hazel is not Ruby's mother, and what are the consequences of this revelation? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your answers.
Essay Topic 3
How does Evangeline view and use literature, and all of her learning and lessons, during the worst times of her travails in prison and on the transport ship? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.
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