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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 does Evangeline help Hazel with on the ship?

2. What kind of pet does Mathinna take with her?

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

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

5. What had Evangeline's father done for a living before he died?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who are some of the first people to show Evangeline and the other female convicts some kindness?

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

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

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

5. Why does Mathinna hide in the bush for days in Part I?

6. Who sets Evangeline's downfall into motion?

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

8. What does Dr. Dunne, the ship's surgeon, seem to think of Evangeline when he first meets her?

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

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

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

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.

Essay Topic 3

Why and when does Hazel begin to realize how much Evangeline really meant to her, and how does she plan to try to honor Evangeline's memory? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

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