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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 Hazel do in her new job?

2. What does Buck do to Evangeline just after she gives birth?

3. What color in the sky meant a storm was on the way?

4. How does Evangeline feel after defending the person who was being assaulted?

5. What does Mr. Block do with Mathinna?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Lady Franklin insist Mathinna must be taught before her big party in Part IV?

3. What happens when Hazel is processed into the prison in Australia that breaks her heart?

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

5. What does Hazel hide for Evangeline?

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

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

8. What was Maeve Logan arrested for?

9. Why does Hazel beg Olive to act as Ruby's wet nurse?

10. How does Hazel feel when Evangeline dies?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What does the Franklins' treatment of Mathinna in Part I of the novel, and their desire to take her home with them despite knowing nothing about her culture or traditions, reveal about the broader British aristocracy's attitudes towards the Australian aboriginals? 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

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.

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