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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. Where does Mary see Jem in Chapter 18?

2. How does Mr. Davey attempt to misdirect the men following him?

3. Where does Mary wait while Jem goes to retrieve the cart?

4. How far is it for Mary to walk back to Jamaica Inn?

5. When Mary finds him, where had Joss been stabbed?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Mr. Davey insist on running away with Mary?

2. In Chapter 9, how does Jem assure Mary?

3. How does Mary disappoint the squire in Chapter 15?

4. Why does Mary snoop around the vicarage in Chapter 16? What does she find?

5. Where does Mary go to find Jem in Chapter 9? Where has he gone, and who tells Mary that information?

6. When Mary arrives back at the inn how does she know Joss is still there? What does Mary find when she goes inside?

7. After leaving the vicar's house, what does Mary resolve to do?

8. What does Mr. Davey tell Mary when she confides Joss's confession to him?

9. What does Mary discover when she awakens in Chapter 12? What is the first thing she wants to do?

10. How does Mary decide she will travel home in Chapter 9? Who saves her at the end of the Chapter?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What happens at the end of the novel "Jamaica Inn" ? Is everything resolved? Are there any surprises at the end of the novel? What happens to the principle characters?

Essay Topic 2

Analyze Du Maurier's use of irony in the novel "Jamaica Inn." What is irony? What are the three types of irony? What are some examples of irony in the novel?

Essay Topic 3

Analyze and interpret the protagonist of the novel, Mary. What are Mary's defining character traits? Who is she close to in the novel? What happens to Mary throughout the novel?

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