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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 name of Mathinna's pet?

2. What does Evangeline do almost as soon as she reaches the group cell with the other women?

3. Who is the ship's surgeon?

4. Who manages the household staff at the governor's mansion?

5. How does Evangeline come to think of her baby?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does Evangeline meet Cecil Frederick Whitstone?

4. Who sets Evangeline's downfall into motion?

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

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

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

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

9. Why does Evangeline get charged with attempted murder?

10. Who is the first sort of friend Evangeline makes in the prison, and what is this person like?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why does Lady Franklin seem to want Mathinna to come to live with her family so badly, and how have similar "experiments" of Lady Franklin's turned out in the past? Write an essay explaining your answers.

Essay Topic 2

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 3

How do the circumstances around Maeve Logan's conviction - for witchcraft - explain some of the biases and unfairness women in that time and place endured? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your answers.

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