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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 see for the first time on the coral island?
(a) the size of his shoulders
(b) the nail scars on his hands
(c) the puckered scars on Joe's back
(d) the way he walks with a limp
2. What concerns Strachan about Joe's visit to his office?
(a) what kind of character he has
(b) how to prove his identity
(c) how to get rid of him
(d) how much he can tell him
3. Who provides breakfast for Jean and Joe?
(a) Moonshine's wife, Palmolive
(b) Mary, Bourneville's wife
(c) Joe
(d) Lily
4. How does Shute let the reader know that Palmolive is not a great cook?
(a) the steak is too tough to cut
(b) the coffee is too strong
(c) the steak is burned
(d) the eggs are runny
5. What is the bore?
(a) a local Aboriginese servant
(b) the drill used for finding water
(c) the man who keeps trying to court Jean
(d) a pipe releasing hot underground water
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Strachan send to Jean in Willstown?
2. Where does Rose Sawyer work?
3. What does jean remember Joe Harman telling her?
4. Why is there such a turnover of ringers in the Willstown area?
5. Who shows up at Strachan's office a week after Jean's letter arrives?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Jean find Midhurst where Joe lives and works?
2. Describe the opening ceremony for the well and laundry room Jean has provided the village.
3. Briefly describe the town of Cairns.
4. How was Joe Harman able to travel to England?
5. Explain what Jean learns on her trip to Kuala Telang to have a well dug for the women there.
6. Why does Jean stay outside the bar while Joe and Whelan discuss leasing agreements with the Shire Clerk?
7. Why is it easy to recruit new workers for the shoe factory?
8. Why are reporters waiting around the airport at Darwin?
9. Briefly describe Jean's shoe making project.
10. Why does Harman not recognize Jean at first when she goes to the airport to meet him?
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