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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 Sally ask Mary about her trip to Liverpool?

2. Who is arrested for Harry Carson's murder?

3. Whose name is written on the wad of paper Esther finds in the hedge?

4. What does Mr. Carson refuse to do until his son's killer is sentenced?

5. On what condition will Miss Simmonds welcome Mary back to her seamstress job?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Jane Wilson feel about Jem and Mary as a couple?

2. How do the Sturgis' try to revive Mary when she faints at their house?

3. What effect does the summons to testify against her son have on Jane Wilson?

4. What does Mary stay up all night doing at the Sturgis' house?

5. What does Charley Jones clarify about the John Cropper sailing out?

6. Why does Sally Leadbitter say Mary should rethink giving up her job?

7. What evidence is there against Jem in the Carson murder case?

8. What is Mary's first thought when she sees her father after returning from Liverpool?

9. How does Mary end up going home with one of the sailors?

10. What does Esther find at the scene of the Carson murder?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the end of the novel. Were you satisfied with the ending? Did it surprise you? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

Gaskell uses language to make the characters more vivid and realistic. Discuss how Gaskell uses dialect and regional works to bring the Lancashire world to life.

Essay Topic 3

A number of the working class characters of the novel "Mary Barton" strive to raise their social status. Discuss who does this and how they go about doing so.

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