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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Jean's impression of Alice Springs?
(a) it is very modern
(b) it is in the back of beyond
(c) it is strangely English
(d) it is not like Joe remembered

2. What is served at tea time which shocks Jean?
(a) baked beans and pork
(b) an enormous raost and plum pudding
(c) a steak and two fried eggs
(d) hard bread and butter

3. What does Jean learn from 18-year-old Rose Sawyer?
(a) the aboriginese of Australia
(b) the distances in Australia
(c) the history of Alice Springs
(d) the loneliness of Alice Springs

4. Who tells Jean about the land as they pass through?
(a) a fellow traveler on the train
(b) a fellow traveler in the taxi
(c) a fellow traveler on the plane
(d) a fellow traveler on the bus

5. What happens on Boxing Day?
(a) Jean closes the milk bar
(b) Joe falls and breaks his leg
(c) the torrential rains come
(d) the first shoes go out to London

6. What does Strachan research about Jean's ancestors?
(a) to make sure there are no Harmans included
(b) to make sure she has no living relatives
(c) to make sure she came from Australian stock
(d) to make sure she is the rightful heir

7. What does Jean write to Mr. Strachan about her plans?
(a) she is contacting the Australian Embassy
(b) she is headed for New Zealand
(c) she is taking a ship to Sydney
(d) she is flying to Darwin

8. Why do townspeople hope that Jean will put in a shoe manufacturing business?
(a) to keep their daughters from running away to the city
(b) to have something to brag about
(c) to encourage other businesses to come to the area
(d) to put their town on the map

9. What is the dying wish Harman requests when he talks to Sugamo?
(a) a bath and new clothes
(b) a steak and potatoes
(c) a chicken and a beer
(d) a suicide pill

10. How does Jean get a final look at the construction at Kuala Telang?
(a) with the Bowens
(b) passing by on the train
(c) from the air
(d) on an overnight trip

11. In Darwin, what does she say Joe Harman is and why she is looking for him?
(a) a man her uncle wants to run his ranch
(b) a second cousin she is looking up for her worried uncle
(c) a friend of her brother who was killed in the war
(d) a creditor she wants to repay a loan to

12. What does Jean ask about while visiting with the reporter?
(a) the economic picture of the region
(b) local customs
(c) Darwin
(d) Alice Springs

13. What does Strachan notice and cannot help but look at?
(a) Joe's dark brown eyes
(b) Joe's scarred hands
(c) Joe's round face
(d) Joe's thin physique

14. Who is Lily?
(a) Joe Hamand's sister
(b) the cook at Midhurst
(c) a young blue and white wallaby
(d) Joe Hamand's favorite dog

15. Who are David and Joyce Bowen?
(a) people who knew Joe Harman
(b) people who have Joe Harman's address
(c) people Jean stays with in Kuantan
(d) people from the British consul service

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jean see for the first time on the coral island?

2. How does Jean travel across central Australia?

3. Who is Joe Popcock that Jean meets at her hotel while talking to the ringers?

4. How many girls does Small think would work regularly for £5 a week in a shoe factory?

5. When Jean and the Bowens pass by the tree where Joe had been nailed, what do they see?

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