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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 do the newspapers label General Sean Courtney as?

2. Where does Storm go the next day after spending the afternoon with Mark Anders?

3. Whom are Dirk Courtney and his men following when the lions attack the oxen?

4. Whom does General Sean Courtney ask to survey Chaka's Gate?

5. How much money does Mark Anders actually want?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Mark get hold of Hobday?

2. What happens to Mark and Storm at the end of the book?

3. What happens to Mark when he is riding his horse?

4. What does Mark decide to do after he learns of his wife's death?

5. What is the misunderstanding between Storm and Mark?

6. What does Mark do when he meets Storm on the beach at Umhlanga Rocks?

7. Why is the General angry when Mark gets money from Dirk?

8. What is the conversation between Dirk and the General?

9. What is the conversation Mark and Pungushe have when Mark Anders returns to Chaka's Gate?

10. How do Mark and Pungushe lead Dirk and his company astray?

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

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

Essay Topic 3

How does Wilbur Smith's own life and his past get reflected in A Sparrow Falls?

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