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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. What is the relationship between Cecil and Mrs. Whitstone?

2. Who is one of Evangeline's favorite writers?

3. What is the name of the transport ship that Evangeline and the others take to Australia?

4. Who does the mean-spirited sailor push hard as she gets onto the ship?

5. What does Evangeline do almost as soon as she reaches the group cell with the other women?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Dr. Dunne, the ship's surgeon, seem to think of Evangeline when he first meets her?

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

4. What is Hazel's skill that soon becomes very important for Evangeline?

5. Why does Lady Jane Franklin seem to like to take in tribal children to her home occasionally?

6. Who care for Mathinna before she is relocated to the governor's mansion?

7. Why does Evangeline get charged with attempted murder?

8. What happens to Hazel almost as soon as she arrives on the ship?

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

10. How does wearing the numbered token on the ship make Evangeline feel?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How do the circumstances around Maeve Logan's conviction - for witchcraft - explain some of the biases and unfairness women in that time and place endured? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your answers.

Essay Topic 2

How does Evangeline view and use literature, and all of her learning and lessons, during the worst times of her travails in prison and on the transport ship? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 3

How does Ruby Dunne's personal and professional success as an adult run counter to the confines, restrictions, and limitations of the British hierarchical class strata of the time? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your answers.

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