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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 use to defend the person who is being assaulted in Part III?

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

3. What does Hazel remember most vividly about the last time she sees Evangeline?

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

5. What does Hazel name Evangeline's baby?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Mathinna think of Eleanor Franklin, her new "sister"?

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

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

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

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

7. What does Hazel hide for Evangeline?

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

9. What happens to Evangeline right after her baby is born?

10. What was Maeve Logan arrested for?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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.

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 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.

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