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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mary do to one of the workers?
(a) Kiss him.
(b) Hit him.
(c) Make an unforgivable insult in his language.
(d) Fire him.

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

3. What dies because of Mary's neglect?
(a) The cows.
(b) The chickens.
(c) The crops of mealies.
(d) The bees.

4. What has Dick sold?
(a) His crop of tobacco.
(b) The farm.
(c) His car.
(d) All of Mary's jewelry.

5. Where is he waiting?
(a) In the bedroom.
(b) The veld.
(c) Somewhere in the trees.
(d) In town.

6. What does Mary do in front of Moses?
(a) Hit another servant.
(b) Vomit.
(c) Cry.
(d) Steal from Dick.

7. What months have passed since the previous chapter?
(a) August and September.
(b) September and October.
(c) November and January.
(d) July and August.

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

9. What type of animal breaks its leg on the farm?
(a) Chicken.
(b) Goat.
(c) Cow.
(d) Ox.

10. What does Mary ask Dick if they can do?
(a) Have children.
(b) Retire early.
(c) Go on vacation.
(d) Leave the farm.

11. With what does Mary refuse to help Dick?
(a) Fetching water.
(b) Managing the workers.
(c) The farm.
(d) Tending the store.

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

13. How often does Mary go out to inspect the farm while Dick is ill?
(a) Once an hour.
(b) One every other day.
(c) One a day.
(d) Twice a day.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Moses ask Mary at the end of the chapter?

2. After reading Dick's accounting sheets, what does Mary think he is?

3. What does Mary hate the most about the workers?

4. What does Mary's father smell like in her dream?

5. What is Dick suffering from when Charlie visits him?

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