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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. Who does the store owner's daughter suggest Jamie talks to about finding diamonds?

2. What does Margaret leave at Jamie's house for a week?

3. What country is Blackwell from?

4. What does Kate buy in Dark Harbor Maine?

5. Where does Jamie return to in this section?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the prison camp affect Kate?

2. How does Jamie try to calm down the strikers?

3. Why does think Jamie a raft will help them in their mission to steal from Van der Merwe's diamond beach in Namib Desert?

4. Why did Van der Merwe give Banda a job at his store?

5. How does Jamie get to Klipdrift?

6. How does Jamie think they can get across the minefield?

7. How does Jamie use the guard to escape from the diamond beach?

8. Why do the police want to kill Banda?

9. What proposition does Van der Merwe make Jamie over dinner?

10. How does the Boer War affect Margaret and Kate's lives?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What does Sidney Sheldon say about the self-made man? What does it say about Sheldon's own views about life? How does the theme link to American society in the 1980s? How does he use the main characters to express his view?

Essay Topic 2

Away from the main character, examine the way the author uses the other characters in the book. When does he introduce and take them away from the story? What effect does it have on the story?

Essay Topic 3

How does Jamie's death affect the lives of the characters? How would the story if Jamie lived?

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