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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Jean travel to Alice Springs?

2. Where does Jean discover Joe Harman is?

3. Who finds Curtis and stays with him until help comes?

4. Who remembers the poor boy Joe Harman who was in the hospital for 3-4 months?

5. What is amusing in the idea that he cannot believe she has survived three weeks in Willstown?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Briefly describe Jean's shoe making project.

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

5. Why does Harman not recognize Jean at first when she goes to the airport to meet him?

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

7. In Daly Waters, describe what Jean sees for the first time.

8. Why does Jean fly to Australia?

9. Briefly describe the town of Cairns.

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay on the dynamics of growth for a community. Using Willstown as an example, explain the growth in terms of available jobs, the ratio of girls and ringers (cowboys), and opportunities for future development. A reverse approach to this topic might also include how once thriving cities and towns begin to deteriorate when businesses fold or relocate to another area or country.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay about responding to emergency situations. Using the rescue of Don Curtis as an example, include how people often come together to solve problems during an emergency situation. Some examples might include ones like a man who lifts a car to rescue his child when under normal circumstances he could not do it. Either personalize your essay with an example when you responded to an emergency situation or that of a person you know who acted on impulse in such a situation. Apply your theme to being prepared to respond like taking CPR classes or water safety classes.

Essay Topic 3

Write a short short story about paying a surprise visit to another person only to find out that person has gone to visit you in the place you came from. Find the humor as well as the irony of the situation and work out a solution to the problem.

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