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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 Hazel skilled in?

2. What do white people call the island of Lutruwita?

3. What is the name of Mathinna's pet?

4. Who was the other boy who Lady Jane Franklin once took in?

5. What is Evangeline's assigned identification number on her tin ticket?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why are the windows in Mathinna's room boarded up?

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

3. Which sailor is abusive towards the women, and how does he treat them on the Medea?

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

5. What does Mathinna think of the clothes Lady Franklin has set out for her?

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

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

8. How does Evangeline come to be a governess for the Whitstone family?

9. Why does Evangeline get charged with attempted murder?

10. What are the few things Evangeline is given when she is booked at Newgate Prison?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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