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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. How many female convicts are ferried from the Medea to land in Part IV?

2. Where does Ruby get transferred after she gets out of the nursery?

3. What is the crime for unwed pregnancy at the prison in Van Diemen's Land?

4. What street do the female convicts walk along as they make their way to the prison?

5. What is Hazel's one goal once she gets to the Cascades?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Olive advise Hazel to watch herself and be careful at the prison?

2. What does Hazel hide for Evangeline?

3. How does Hazel end up getting special gifts and items on the Medea in Part III?

4. Where does Hazel get hired to work and how does she end up getting along there?

5. What reason does Mathinna confront Lady Jane Franklin with for getting rid of Mathinna?

6. What transgression does Mathinna commit in Part IV that results in the Franklins' shunning her?

7. What is the difficulty with Evangeline's labor on the Medea?

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

9. What is Buck's punishment for what happens to Evangeline?

10. What happens to Waluka, and how does Mathinna react?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

What does Olive Rivers suspect - from her own experiences and what she overhears in pubs and brothels from power brokers in British society - that the real reason is for Britain sentencing so many women to transport to Australia, and how does Evangeline react to this theory? Write an essay explaining 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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