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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Charlie once do in a fit of rage?
(a) Beat his wife.
(b) Break a sjambok over his knee.
(c) Kill a native.
(d) Slap one of his children.

2. How many miles does Slatter live from the Turners?
(a) Seven.
(b) Two and a half.
(c) Three.
(d) Five.

3. What is the only part of the newspaper that Mary reads?
(a) Obituaries.
(b) The sports section.
(c) The economic news.
(d) Births and marriages.

4. What product causes the most loss at the store?
(a) The food that rots before it is sold.
(b) Blankets.
(c) Whiskey.
(d) Bicycles.

5. Who knows more about the Turners than anyone else?
(a) Moses.
(b) Sergeant Denhem.
(c) Samson.
(d) Charlie Slatter.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What type of shoes is Mary wearing when she arrives at the farm?

3. What does Mary decide to do?

4. What does Samson do after being punished?

5. What type of car does Charlie drive?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Mary react to the first new servant?

2. What does Dick usually do when he fights with Mary?

3. Why is it strange that no one discusses the murder?

4. How does Mary change Dick's house? How does Dick feel about this?

5. How does Dick feel now that Mary is at the farm?

6. What did people in Lobengula's kingdom do when they commit a crime? What is the custom for talking about African history?

7. What spoiled Mary's happiness with her single life?

8. How do people react to the newspaper article about the murder?

9. What type of store does Dick build on the farm? What does Mary think about it?

10. How does Marston feel about the murder? How does he feel about the way Slatter and the Sergeant talk to him?

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