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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 manages the household staff at the governor's mansion?

2. What other convict does Olive make friends with on the ship?

3. Who first answered the door the day Evangeline arrived at the Whitstone residence?

4. What is the name of the transport ship that Evangeline and the others take to Australia?

5. What is Hazel skilled in?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What pet does Mathinna bring with her to the Franklins' and why is it so important to her?

4. Why does Lady Jane Franklin seem to like to take in tribal children to her home occasionally?

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

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

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

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

9. How does wearing the numbered token on the ship make Evangeline feel?

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

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

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 3

How does Moore's choice to focus on three separate main protagonists - Evangeline, Mathinna, and Hazel - affect the reader's experiences of the books and connections to the characters? Write an essay explaining your answers.

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