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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Meggie leave school?
(a) Mary no longer wants to pay tuition at the school.
(b) A pregnant Fiona cannot manage all of the housework.
(c) Meggie is making poor grades.
(d) Meggie needs to help Paddy with the sheep.

2. What does the Cleary family not encounter at Drogheda?
(a) Dust and flies.
(b) Oppressive heat.
(c) Snakes, birds, and kangaroos.
(d) A forest.

3. Why does Mary Carson prefer to remain a widow?
(a) If she remarries, all of her wealth becomes her husband's.
(b) Paddy will be jealous.
(c) She cannot find anyone she loves.
(d) She will have to leave her home.

4. As administrator of Mary Carson's wealth, Father Ralph does something that is unheard of. What is that?
(a) He challenges the rules of the Catholic church.
(b) He takes Meggie dress shopping.
(c) He tries to break Frank out of prison.
(d) He gives Meggie and Fiona an income.

5. Who is the first person that the Cleary family meets when they arrive in Gillanbone?
(a) Fiona's sister.
(b) Mary Carson.
(c) Father Ralph.
(d) Paddy Cleary's mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Fiona's family from?

2. What does Father Ralph do for everyone in the family?

3. What is Paddy's occupation when he and his family leave New Zealand?

4. What does Ralph stop just short of explaining to Meggie?

5. Why does Paddy Cleary move to New South Wales?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is life like for Fiona at Drogheda?

2. Why does Mary Carson find it more advantageous to remain a widow and not remarry?

3. What does Mary Carson's new will say?

4. What happens between Frank and Paddy when they are at the Gillanbone Show and Picnic Races?

5. Since Fiona never converted to Catholicism, what aspects of a Catholic life are missing in the household?

6. What does Fiona find while packing and how does it affect her?

7. What physically happens to Meggie that initially frightens her?

8. Describe what happens to Hal during one of the dry winters in Chapter 6.

9. What happens to Meggie's friendship with Teresa Annunzio?

10. Describe what happens to Paddy when he goes to round up sheep during a storm.

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