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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Where does Art Foster say Harman is now?
(a) Sydney
(b) England
(c) Malaya
(d) Queensland
2. What does Strachan research about Jean's ancestors?
(a) to make sure she has no living relatives
(b) to make sure she is the rightful heir
(c) to make sure there are no Harmans included
(d) to make sure she came from Australian stock
3. Who arranges with Whelan and sons to order the lumber for the shop and bedroom annex?
(a) Jean Paget
(b) Mr. Strachan
(c) Joe Harman
(d) Hal Porter
4. What makes Jean angry at the bank?
(a) the heat
(b) the poor security
(c) the flies
(d) the time it takes to get her money
5. What does Strachan notice and cannot help but look at?
(a) Joe's dark brown eyes
(b) Joe's scarred hands
(c) Joe's thin physique
(d) Joe's round face
6. What happens on Boxing Day?
(a) Jean closes the milk bar
(b) Joe falls and breaks his leg
(c) the first shoes go out to London
(d) the torrential rains come
7. At Midhurst where does Harman sleep and do most of his living?
(a) in the kitchen
(b) in the living room
(c) in the cattle barn
(d) on the verandah
8. What does Strachan agree to allow Harman to do?
(a) prove his identity
(b) stay at his club
(c) write a letter he will forward to Jean
(d) find out where Jean is
9. Who is Joe Popcock that Jean meets at her hotel while talking to the ringers?
(a) the last of the kangaroo hunters
(b) a shoe maker
(c) a friend of Joe Harman's
(d) the best alligator hunter in Queensland
10. After another day on the mail plane, where does Jean end up?
(a) Queensbury
(b) back in Alice springs
(c) Willstown
(d) Cloncurry
11. What does Harman say about the town of Willstown now that Jean is there?
(a) it will never change no matter what she brings in
(b) it will soon be as good as Alice Springs
(c) it will be where they build a house
(d) it will need a railroad line soon
12. Although Jean is not pleased with the finished product, how do the townspeople respond?
(a) they place large orders
(b) they suggest ways of improving
(c) they laugh at Jean
(d) they are amazed
13. Besides the well, what has Jean caused to be built?
(a) a ceptic system
(b) a private laundry shed
(c) a meeting hall
(d) a small food shop
14. Who provides breakfast for Jean and Joe?
(a) Moonshine's wife, Palmolive
(b) Lily
(c) Mary, Bourneville's wife
(d) Joe
15. Without a phone, how do people get information?
(a) riders carry messages from station to station
(b) the radio network operator connects to 50 stations
(c) traveling pastors carry messages from place to place
(d) mail plane pilots bring messages to town
Short Answer Questions
1. Who tells Jean Paget this story?
2. What does Jean learn from 18-year-old Rose Sawyer?
3. Where does Jean discover Joe Harman is?
4. What does Jean see for the first time on the coral island?
5. Who shows up at Strachan's office a week after Jean's letter arrives?
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