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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 happens to Waluka?

3. What did Liza do to be put in prison?

4. What does Evangeline compare life experiences to in order to try to cheer Olive up?

5. Why does Dr. Dunne list who he does as Ruby's mother on the birth certificate?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Dr. Dunne give Hazel as a gift when she departs the Medea, and how does Hazel react?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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 3

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.

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