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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 Mary do when she goes downstairs in Chapter 13?

2. What alerts Mary to someone being outside in Chapter 13?

3. What state is Joss in when Mary goes downstairs in Chapter 12?

4. Who arrives to help Mary at the end of Chapter 9?

5. What does Mary leave for the vicar?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What do Mary and Jem discuss when he climbs into her room in Chapter 13?

4. How does Mary feel staying at the Bassat's? What does she dream of doing?

5. What happens after Jem leaves Mary to retrieve his cart in Chapter 9?

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

7. What trouble does Jem encounter as he tries to sell the second pony in Chapter 9?

8. Why do Joss's men fight after destroying the carriage?

9. What does Mary discover when she wakes in the carriage in Chapter 11? What does she do?

10. What does Mary witness when she reaches the beach in Chapter 11?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the motif of death in the novel "Jamaica Inn." How does Du Maurier illustrate the death motif throughout the novel? What do the characters think of death? How do the characters, particularly Mary, react to the deaths? Why are these deaths occurring?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss Du Maurier's inclusion of violence in the novel "Jamaica Inn." What are some examples of violence in the novel? How do these examples affect the tone of the scene? Are these examples necessary?

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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