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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 has Banda began protesting against?

2. What does Jame tell everyone is his name?

3. Who are the police looking for in this section?

4. What is Van der Merwe forced to put up for sale?

5. What does Margaret name her daughter?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Jamie despise Margaret?

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

3. How does Jamie get Van der Merwe's diamond beach?

4. Why does Jamie decide to marry Margaret?

5. Why do the police want to kill Banda?

6. How does the prison camp affect Kate?

7. What problems does Jamie suffer on his journey to find diamonds?

8. Why does Margaret send Kate to boarding school?

9. Describe Kate's character.

10. How does Jamie use Margaret to get back at Van der Merwe?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

Compare Kate's character to the person she was at the beginning of the book to the she is at the end.

1. What did Kate hope to achieve at the beginning of the book?

2. What events changes Kate's ideas about life?

3. How has Kate's character changed by the end of the book?

Essay Topic 3

What did Kate and Margaret experience at the concentration camps? How do the concentration camps affect Margaret and Kate's relationship?

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