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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 Olive say about the fate of her baby?

2. What does Dr. Dunne tell Hazel her only task is after Evangeline is gone?

3. What does Dr. Dunne point out to Evangeline that she has never seen before and that she is amazed by?

4. What do Hazel and Olive call Evangeline?

5. What happens to Waluka?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Hazel and Olive unite to care for Ruby?

2. What does Dr. Dunne do to ensure that Hazel will be able to look after Ruby when they depart the Medea?

3. What happens to Olive's baby on the Medea?

4. Why is Dr. Dunne on the prison ship?

5. How does Mathinna feel about Hazel once they meet at the Franklin mansion?

6. What does Mathinna tell visitors at the Franklins' Sunday lunch that she then says she is lying about, even though she is not?

7. How does Hazel feel when Evangeline dies?

8. What are Hazel's first impressions of Van Diemen's Land?

9. What seed of doubt does Olive plant in Evangeline's mind about Cecil?

10. How does Evangeline help Hazel on the ship in Part III?

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

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.

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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