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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 does Dick hate?

2. What does Charlie tell Dick he must do for six months?

3. What does Mrs. Slatter make repeated attempts to do?

4. What disease does Dick get?

5. What motivates Charlie to decide to stay for dinner?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Dick handling Mary's return?

2. What dream does Mary have about her father? What do you think its significance is? What else does Mary dream about?

3. What does Moses do to help Mary? How does Mary feel about being helped by a native?

4. Describe the compound where the workers and their families live.

5. How, and why, does Moses seek revenge on Mary? What other motives might he have for killing Mary?

6. What is the first law of white South Africa?

7. What does Dick have to do to make Mary love him?

8. What is Mary blocking out? Is she aware of what is happening to her?

9. What does Dick suggest Mary to do feel better? How does Mary react?

10. How does Mary feel about how she arrives at her fate?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay intended to educate readers on the dangers that malaria poses to people all over the world, both throughout history and in the present day. Be sure to include properly cited research.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay that describes the differences between family and factory farming. Be sure to address:

1) Pros and cons of factory farming versus small family farms.

2) Dangers and health hazards associated with either type of farm.

3) Which type of farm you would rather eat the products of and why.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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