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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. How much money is bet?

2. Whom does Mark Anders meet in Fordsburg?

3. Where does Fergus MacDonald take Mark Anders to when the latter is visiting him?

4. Why do women and children leave Fordsburg?

5. From whom does Mark Anders receive a letter?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Mark go to the library?

2. Describe the fighting scene between the Prime Minister, Mark Anders, and the General on one side with Fergus and his men on the other.

3. Whom does Mark meet at the studio?

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

5. What is the conversation between Dicky Lancome and the General?

6. Why does Mark feel guilty when he is at the General's home talking to the Prime Minister?

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

8. How does Mark fall into the river?

9. Why does Mark feel a sense of destiny?

10. What does Mark see when he goes to Andersland?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What can be said of the relationship between the characters in the novel? How do they influence each other?

Essay Topic 2

How does the relationship between General Sean Courtney and his estranged son gain momentum in the novel?

Essay Topic 3

How has the author shown the peaceful co-existence of the white man and the black man in the novel?

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