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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6, Finding the Southern Cross.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Bob McLennan's main job at Coorain?
(a) To find water.
(b) To sell water.
(c) To manage the other workers.
(d) To fix the water filter.

2. What about Ceylon made Conway resent the British?
(a) The poverty.
(b) The crime.
(c) The wealth.
(d) The language.

3. What did Angus tell Conway after her father's death?
(a) That she needs to work more at Coorain.
(b) That she should leave Coorain.
(c) That she should let her mother take a vacation.
(d) That she should go to church.

4. In "The West," how long ago did Conway say white settlers came?
(a) 130 years ago.
(b) 40 years ago.
(c) 100 years ago.
(d) 180 years ago.

5. What was missing from the curriculum of Abbotsleigh?
(a) Advanced math.
(b) Historical perspectives.
(c) British colonization.
(d) Progressive ideas.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Mrs. Ker have to find a job in Sydney?

2. What was the result of Bob McLennan's work at Coorain, in "Childhood"?

3. What is remarkable about most of the birds that live in the Western Plains of New South Wales?

4. What was Conway's father's first job?

5. What did Conway consider doing after graduating from Abbotsleigh?

(see the answer key)

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