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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. Why do women and children leave Fordsburg?

2. Who is Dennis?

3. What is Chaka's gate?

4. Who is Fred?

5. Who is sitting with Mark Anders in the car when they are driving to Fordsburg?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Dirk Courtney and his compatriots kill John Anders?

2. Why does Mark go to the Post Office?

3. Why is the General disappointed when he goes to his office?

4. What is the great emptiness that Mark's grandfather tells him about?

5. What is the explanation given by Uncle Fred about Mark's grandfather's death?

6. Where does Mark get his first job?

7. How does Mark continue his research of the Courtney family?

8. What can be said about Storm Courtney's character?

9. What scares Peter when he meets Dirk?

10. What happens when Mark is on a train leaving Ladyburg?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How important is the setting to the novel?

Essay Topic 2

What is the importance of the sniper team in the novel?

Essay Topic 3

How has the author depicted his love for preservation of wild life in the novel?

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