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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. Who does the mean-spirited sailor push hard as she gets onto the ship?

2. What is Evangeline's sentence?

3. Who is one of the first people who speaks kindly to Evangeline when she arrives in prison?

4. Which colleague of Evangeline's does she fight often with?

5. What does one of the leaders of the visiting group tell Evangeline her mistake was?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens to Hazel almost as soon as she arrives on the ship?

2. Why does Sarah tell Mathinna that Lady Franklin got rid of the last tribal child she took in?

3. Why does Evangeline get charged with attempted murder?

4. How does Evangeline meet Cecil Frederick Whitstone?

5. What are some of the most grotesque things in Lady Jane Franklin's collection?

6. What does Lady Franklin take from Mathinna for her "collection" that Mathinna resents?

7. Why does Hazel tell Evangeline so many women get sentenced to transport to Australia?

8. What is Hazel's skill that soon becomes very important for Evangeline?

9. Who care for Mathinna before she is relocated to the governor's mansion?

10. How do the staff at the Franklins' generally treat Mathinna?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why does the Medea's doctor eventually agree to let Hazel help treat some patients, and how does the doctor's attitude towards Hazel change over the course of the journey? Write an essay explaining your answers.

Essay Topic 2

What do you think the character Daniel Buck represents, and do you think justice is served in the way Buck eventually meets his end? Write an essay explaining your answers.

Essay Topic 3

What important things does Evangeline learn from Hazel Rivers when they are in jail and then on the transport ship together about the ways of the world that she did not previously know? Write an essay explaining your answers.

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