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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 do Hazel and Olive call Evangeline?

2. What does Dr. Dunne tell Hazel her only task is after Evangeline is gone?

3. Where does Ruby get transferred after she gets out of the nursery?

4. What does Hazel name Evangeline's baby?

5. What is the women's prison in Van Diemen's Land called?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Hazel feel when Evangeline dies?

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

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

5. What was Maeve Logan arrested for?

6. What does Mathinna tell visitors at the Franklins' Sunday lunch that she then says she is lying about, even though she is not?

7. Where does Hazel get hired to work and how does she end up getting along there?

8. Why does Olive advise Hazel to watch herself and be careful at the prison?

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

10. What happens to Waluka, and how does Mathinna react?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How would you describe Moore's writing style and tone throughout this novel? Write an essay explaining your answers.

Essay Topic 2

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.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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