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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 find it hard to do during dinner with Mr. Davey?
2. Why does Mary start snooping around the vicarage in Chapter 16?
3. What does Mary tell Joss about the carriage?
4. Who is Mary told Jem left with?
5. How much does Jem get for the high-bred pony?
Short Essay Questions
1. When Mary goes downstairs in Chapter 12, how is Joss acting?
2. Why does Mr. Davey insist on running away with Mary?
3. What does Mr. Davey confess to Mary over dinner in Chapter 16?
4. What does Jem tell Mary when they meet on the moors in Chapter 18? What does Mary decide?
5. What does Mary discover when she awakens in Chapter 12? What is the first thing she wants to do?
6. What does Mr. Davey tell Mary when she confides Joss's confession to him?
7. Why does Mary convince Joss to let her and Patience take a nap in Chapter 13?
8. Why does Mary snoop around the vicarage in Chapter 16? What does she find?
9. Who does Mary first suspect of the murders? Why could it not be this person?
10. Where does Mary go to find Jem in Chapter 9? Where has he gone, and who tells Mary that information?
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 the motif of suspicion in the novel "Jamaica Inn." Who is suspicious of whom and why? Do these characters act on their suspicions? Are their suspicions based on truth? How do these examples of suspicion affect the tone of the novel?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the struggles faced by Mary throughout the novel. What struggles does Mary face? How does she overcome them?
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