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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. How is she able to do her project in the hotel?
(a) several men in the town get supplies for her
(b) Rose Sawyer comes to help her
(c) several women pitch in to help
(d) Strachan sends her the materials

2. What are the girls betting on in the shoe factory?
(a) how long before Jean and Joe marry
(b) how long the shop will stay in business
(c) how long the sir conditioner will last
(d) how soon before they get pay raises

3. Who remembers the poor boy Joe Harman who was in the hospital for 3-4 months?
(a) ex-nurse Phyllis Williams
(b) Dr. March
(c) Wilson-Hays
(d) Joyce Bowen

4. What is the bore?
(a) the drill used for finding water
(b) a local Aboriginese servant
(c) the man who keeps trying to court Jean
(d) a pipe releasing hot underground water

5. What makes Jean angry at the bank?
(a) the time it takes to get her money
(b) the poor security
(c) the heat
(d) the flies

Short Answer Questions

1. After another day on the mail plane, where does Jean end up?

2. What does Strachan send to Jean in Willstown?

3. In Darwin, what does she say Joe Harman is and why she is looking for him?

4. Where are Jean and Harman finally reunited?

5. What concerns Strachan about Joe's visit to his office?

Short Essay Questions

1. Briefly describe poddy dodging.

2. After confiding with the Sawyers her real reason for looking up Joe Harman, what is Jean's denial?

3. Briefly describe the town of Cairns.

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

5. What is the bore and what use do the people make of it?

6. Why are reporters waiting around the airport at Darwin?

7. What does Jean discover about Harman in Alice Springs?

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

9. What consideration do both Jean and Joe have about each other?

10. Describe the outback custom Jean learns that shows her determination to fit in and settle there.

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