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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 Evangeline do almost as soon as she reaches the group cell with the other women?
(a) Vomits.
(b) Screams.
(c) Brings out her knife.
(d) Faints.

2. Who was Mathinna's sister who had died?
(a) Teanic.
(b) Wampona.
(c) Traobrow.
(d) Wanganip.

3. What does Evangeline help Hazel with on the ship?
(a) Reading.
(b) Gardening.
(c) Eating well.
(d) Cooking.

4. What does one of the leaders of the visiting group tell Evangeline her mistake was?
(a) Thinking she was too good for her station.
(b) Not taking her education seriously.
(c) Letting herself be taken advantage of.
(d) Loving God too much.

5. What is the candle that the prison matron hands Evangeline made out of?
(a) Mutton fat.
(b) Beeswax.
(c) Lye.
(d) Whale fat.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who used to sing Mathinna to sleep on Flinders?

2. What charges are brought against Evangeline?

3. Who was Mathinna's mother?

4. Why does Mathinna make her way back to the settlement after running away for several days?

5. What tribe is Mathinna from?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Evangeline meet Cecil Frederick Whitstone?

2. Why does Mathinna hide in the bush for days in Part I?

3. What pet does Mathinna bring with her to the Franklins' and why is it so important to her?

4. Why are the windows in Mathinna's room boarded up?

5. Who sets Evangeline's downfall into motion?

6. Why does Sarah tell Mathinna that Lady Franklin got rid of the last tribal child she took in?

7. What does Lady Franklin take from Mathinna for her "collection" that Mathinna resents?

8. How do the staff at the Franklins' generally treat Mathinna?

9. Why does Evangeline get charged with attempted murder?

10. What are some of the most grotesque things in Lady Jane Franklin's collection?

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