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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. By what are people who keep to themselves troubled?
(a) Other people talking about them.
(b) Unwelcome visitors.
(c) Boredom.
(d) Personal demons.

2. What does the doctor suggest?
(a) Cut back the bush.
(b) Put in ceilings.
(c) All of the choices
(d) Wire the house for mosquitoes.

3. Where does Mary find Moses?
(a) In a clearing.
(b) The store.
(c) The old chicken coop.
(d) In the kitchen.

4. How long do Dick and Charlie argue?
(a) Two hours.
(b) Three hours.
(c) One hour.
(d) Four hours.

5. What is Mary's last moment of happiness?
(a) A tender moment with Dick.
(b) A cup of tea.
(c) A quiet moment on her sofa.
(d) A sunrise.

6. After reading Dick's accounting sheets, what does Mary think he is?
(a) Insufferable.
(b) Dishonest.
(c) Incompetent.
(d) Diligent.

7. What does Moses use to kill Mary?
(a) His fists.
(b) A brick.
(c) A sjambok.
(d) A piece of metal.

8. How many workers does Mary manage?
(a) Fifty-five.
(b) One hundred.
(c) Eighty.
(d) Twenty.

9. What does Dick suggest Mary do instead of a vacation on the coast?
(a) Stay in town with her friends.
(b) Go camping in the veld.
(c) Go back to England.
(d) Write a book.

10. What does Charlie offer to do?
(a) Buy the farm.
(b) Help Dick with the farming.
(c) Talk to Mary for Dick.
(d) Lend Dick some money.

11. What does Mary ask Dick if they can do?
(a) Leave the farm.
(b) Go on vacation.
(c) Retire early.
(d) Have children.

12. What disease does Dick get?
(a) Cholera.
(b) Typhoid.
(c) Malaria.
(d) Influenza.

13. What does Mary understand?
(a) Nothing.
(b) The evil.
(c) Spanish.
(d) The irony of her death.

14. What must Mary do while Dick is sick?
(a) Help him do everything.
(b) Tend to the farm.
(c) Sell vegetables on the roadside.
(d) Get a job outside the farm.

15. Who spread gossip about the Turners?
(a) The natives.
(b) The Marstons.
(c) The local church group.
(d) The Slatters.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what do the workers live?

2. When will Dick and Mary get off the farm?

3. What motivates Charlie to decide to stay for dinner?

4. What does Dick want sent to him?

5. What type of animal breaks its leg on the farm?

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