A Town Like Alice Test | Final Test - Medium

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 123 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

A Town Like Alice Test | Final Test - Medium

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 123 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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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. What does Jean learn from 18-year-old Rose Sawyer?
(a) the distances in Australia
(b) the aboriginese of Australia
(c) the history of Alice Springs
(d) the loneliness of Alice Springs

2. Why is Helen Curtis hysterical on the radio?
(a) lightning struck her house and burned it down
(b) her son has come down with a fever
(c) her husband's horse returned home without him
(d) the flood has washed away the curtis barn

3. Besides the well, what has Jean caused to be built?
(a) a small food shop
(b) a private laundry shed
(c) a ceptic system
(d) a meeting hall

4. What prevents Jean from spending a lot of time at Midhurst?
(a) the rural code of morals
(b) the shop is too busy
(c) Joe is away a great deal of the time
(d) she has no transportation

5. Without a phone, how do people get information?
(a) mail plane pilots bring messages to town
(b) traveling pastors carry messages from place to place
(c) the radio network operator connects to 50 stations
(d) riders carry messages from station to station

Short Answer Questions

1. How much does Jean request Strachan release from her trust fund?

2. Who are David and Joyce Bowen?

3. Although Jean is not pleased with the finished product, how do the townspeople respond?

4. Who arranges with Whelan and sons to order the lumber for the shop and bedroom annex?

5. What report does Sugamo receive about Harman after the women have left?

Short Essay Questions

1. While Jean is looking for Joe in Australia, what is Joe doing?

2. Briefly describe Jean's shoe making project.

3. What is going on at Midhurst when news arrives about Don Curtis' disappearance?

4. How does Jean find Midhurst where Joe lives and works?

5. Briefly describe the town of Cairns.

6. Learning in Alice Springs that Joe is all right and able to work, why does Jean not just return to England?

7. Briefly describe poddy dodging.

8. Why does Jean fly to Australia?

9. Why are the people anxious for Jean to open a shoe factory in Willstown?

10. Why is it easy to recruit new workers for the shoe factory?

(see the answer keys)

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