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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Dick hate?
(a) Hitting the servants.
(b) Changing of the servants.
(c) Referring to the servants by their first names.
(d) Wrongly accusing the servants.

2. What will Moses do after killing Mary?
(a) Protest his innocence.
(b) Run as fast as he can.
(c) Kill Dick and Tony.
(d) Wait to be captured.

3. What is Dick suffering from when Charlie visits him?
(a) Back spasms.
(b) Paranoia.
(c) A cold.
(d) A fever.

4. What age is Mary approaching?
(a) Forty.
(b) Fifty.
(c) Thirty.
(d) Thirty-five.

5. How does Mary feel about the new crop?
(a) Ambivalent.
(b) Full of dread.
(c) Excited.
(d) Wary.

6. What month is it at the beginning of the chapter?
(a) June.
(b) July.
(c) April.
(d) December.

7. When does Mary say it will rain?
(a) Over their entire vacation.
(b) After her death.
(c) Before the night is through.
(d) In a week's time.

8. From where did a new idea in farming that Dick tried come?
(a) The colonies.
(b) Canada.
(c) England.
(d) America.

9. How many workers does Mary manage?
(a) One hundred.
(b) Fifty-five.
(c) Twenty.
(d) Eighty.

10. According to Mary, what proves a man's worth?
(a) Working without reward.
(b) The reward his work gets.
(c) Rewarding others for their work.
(d) How well he can work for a reward.

11. What does Mrs. Slatter make repeated attempts to do?
(a) Get Mary out of the country.
(b) Get Mary off the farm.
(c) Get Mary out of herself.
(d) Get Mary out of her way.

12. Where does Mary find Moses?
(a) In a clearing.
(b) The old chicken coop.
(c) The store.
(d) In the kitchen.

13. What does Dick give the workers for every hour that they are working?
(a) A hit with the sjambok.
(b) Water.
(c) A break.
(d) One shilling.

14. What season does Mary feel is sent for her personally?
(a) Winter.
(b) Autumn.
(c) Spring.
(d) Summer.

15. What does Charlie tell Dick to do with Moses?
(a) Get rid of him.
(b) Have him arrested.
(c) Send him to work in the fields.
(d) Let him work on Charlie's farm for a while to learn some discipline.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mary do to one of the workers?

2. Who spread gossip about the Turners?

3. What does a native give Mary?

4. What does Mary refuse to show to the workers?

5. What does Mary wrap in blankets to help keep Dick warm?

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