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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 color in the sky meant a storm was on the way?
(a) Blue.
(b) Yellow.
(c) Purple.
(d) Red.

2. Why is Hazel so upset after seeing Ruby when Ruby is transferred out of the nursery?
(a) She has bruises on her arms and scabs on her knees.
(b) Hazel sees the staff beating and yelling at children.
(c) She has obviously lost weight.
(d) She tells Hazel she has been starved.

3. Where does Mathinna spend as little time as possible?
(a) The forest.
(b) Her bedroom.
(c) The courtyard.
(d) The beach.

4. What does Hazel offer to steal back for Mathinna?
(a) Her mother's necklace.
(b) Her diamond ring.
(c) Her traditional dress.
(d) Her traditional headband.

5. Why is Hazel so bereft during her first few days and weeks in the prison?
(a) She misses her mother terribly.
(b) She is being assaulted by the head guard.
(c) Ruby has been taken away from her.
(d) Olive and Evangeline are both dead.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who sexually assaults Hazel in Part III?

2. Who witnesses what Buck does to Evangeline?

3. Why does Olive at first refuse to be Ruby's wet nurse?

4. What did Hazel's own mother often buy instead of food?

5. What does Dr. Dunne point out to Evangeline that she has never seen before and that she is amazed by?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Hazel end up getting special gifts and items on the Medea in Part III?

2. How does Evangeline help Hazel on the ship in Part III?

3. What is the difficulty with Evangeline's labor on the Medea?

4. Why is Dr. Dunne on the prison ship?

5. How does Hazel feel when Evangeline dies?

6. Why does Hazel beg Olive to act as Ruby's wet nurse?

7. What is Buck's punishment for what happens to Evangeline?

8. What seed of doubt does Olive plant in Evangeline's mind about Cecil?

9. What are Hazel's first impressions of Van Diemen's Land?

10. How does Mathinna feel about Hazel once they meet at the Franklin mansion?

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