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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mary have that Dick lacks?
(a) Energy and efficiency.
(b) Strength and willpower.
(c) Patience and understanding.
(d) Vindictiveness and ruthlessness.

2. What type of clothes does Mary buy for herself?
(a) Tailor-made.
(b) Elegant and expensive.
(c) Designer.
(d) Childish and simple.

3. What loses a wheel?
(a) Dick's car.
(b) The ambulance.
(c) The water cart.
(d) The wheelbarrow.

4. What was Mary afraid of above all else?
(a) Herself.
(b) Being alone.
(c) Men.
(d) Dying.

5. About what do Dick and Mary fight?
(a) When they will have children.
(b) The fact that the house has no ceilings.
(c) How to manage the natives.
(d) Whether or not the Slatters are good people.

6. How does Dick react to Samson's departure?
(a) He hides his reaction to avoid making Mary angry.
(b) He is sorry to see Samson go.
(c) He is angry at Samson for quitting.
(d) He is glad to be rid of Samson.

7. How much money did Dick borrow after he and Mary got married?
(a) Two hundred pounds.
(b) Ten thousand shillings.
(c) Seventy-five euros.
(d) Twenty farthings.

8. Who is arrested for murder?
(a) The houseboy.
(b) The paperboy.
(c) The milkman.
(d) The poolboy.

9. What does Dick keep locked?
(a) The door to the bedroom.
(b) His gun cabinet.
(c) The food bins.
(d) Samson's leg cuffs.

10. What does Mary wish Dick would install in the house?
(a) Proper flooring.
(b) Windows.
(c) Air conditioning.
(d) Ceilings.

11. From where did the dance music that Mary used to listen to come?
(a) England.
(b) France.
(c) America.
(d) Germany.

12. How often is a trip made by car to the station?
(a) Once a week.
(b) Once a month.
(c) Once every two weeks.
(d) Once every two months.

13. What does Tony say in the car after leaving the house?
(a) That he will not shut up.
(b) Something about responsibility.
(c) Nothing.
(d) That Charlie has something to do with the murder.

14. Who discovered the body?
(a) Charlie Slatter.
(b) Moses.
(c) Farm boys.
(d) Dick Turner.

15. Why is Marston's relationship with the Turners?
(a) He is a distant cousin of Dick Turner.
(b) He was going to watch their farm.
(c) He is their real estate agent.
(d) He was going to help them turn their farm into a tobacco plantation.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many prospective employees does Mary go through before she finds one she will keep?

2. Why can't Mary stay at the Girl's Club?

3. What changes Mary's attitude towards her life?

4. Where has Mary not been since her marriage?

5. Why did Mary have no desire to get married?

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