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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 only food Mary has to eat at home?

2. What expression does the old boatman's wife like to use?

3. What does Mary admit in her testimony?

4. In Chapter 31, rather than sleep at night, what does Mary do?

5. What is Jane Wilson's condition when Mary goes to see her at the beginning of Chapter 24?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Charley Jones clarify about the John Cropper sailing out?

2. What lie does Job tell Jane Wilson in Chapter 30?

3. How do the Sturgis' try to revive Mary when she faints at their house?

4. How has Alice Wilson's stroke affected her, and who cares for her?

5. Why does Margaret tell her grandfather that Mary should be the one to search for Will?

6. Why does Mary want the doctor to declare Jane too sick to travel?

7. How does Jane Wilson feel about Jem and Mary as a couple?

8. What does Mary offer the sailors in order to hire a boat?

9. Who does Jane blame for Jem's arrest?

10. Why does Sally Leadbitter say Mary should rethink giving up her job?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Chartism was a workers' movement from the 1830's to 1850. Discuss chartism and its role in the novel.

Essay Topic 2

What is the genre of the novel "Mary Barton"? Why? Support your response with ample evidence from the text.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the protagonist of the novel, Mary Barton. What are her defining character traits and how does she affect the plot?

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