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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. Who are the Afrikaners?

2. What does Mary order the boy to clean?

3. What was Mary's father's job?

4. What can't Mary pay?

5. Who confesses to the crime?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What new types of farming excite Dick?

3. Describe Mary's social life.

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

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

6. Describe the scenery surrounding the farm.

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

8. How does Mary's financial situation change after getting married?

9. How does Charlie feel about his assistant, Marston?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay describing the way Mary relates to other characters in the novel and how these interactions illustrate her character. Be sure to address:

1) How Mary relates to friends and the role she plays in a friendship.

2) How Mary relates to her husband.

3) How Mary relates to the servants and black people in general.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay on the power relationship between Mary and Moses. Be sure to address:

1) How the relationship changes throughout the novel.

2) How Moses exercises power over Mary.

3) The greater themes and implications of the power relationship between Mary and Moses.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay describing the history of the tobacco plant and its complicated relationship both with humanity and the characters in the novel.

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