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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. From where did a new idea in farming that Dick tried come?

2. What word appears in big black letters in Dick, Charlie, and Tony's minds?

3. What season does Mary feel is sent for her personally?

4. What does Mary suggest Dick do with the tobacco next year?

5. What months have passed since the previous chapter?

Short Essay Questions

1. What type of weather does Mary like best?

2. How does Mary feel about managing the farm? How does she feel about the way Dick has been managing the farm?

3. How does Charlie react to the way Mary talks to Moses?

4. How are the Turners regarded in the community?

5. What does Dick suggest Mary to do feel better? How does Mary react?

6. How does Mary feel about Dick?

7. Describe the state of Dick's farm.

8. Describe the state of Dick and Mary's marriage before Dick gets sick.

9. How do you think Mary really feels about Moses? Why?

10. How does Mary feel about how she arrives at her fate?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay describing the history of the tobacco plant and its complicated relationship both with humanity and the characters in the novel.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay describing the way Mary relates to other characters in the novel and how these interactions illustrate her character. Be sure to address:

1) How Mary relates to friends and the role she plays in a friendship.

2) How Mary relates to her husband.

3) How Mary relates to the servants and black people in general.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay on the role of human weakness in THE GRASS IS SINGING. Be sure to address:

1) How characters show weakness and how other characters react to this weakness.

2) The role of human fallibility in the story.

3) How reading THE GRASS IS SINGING can motivate readers to be stronger and exercise more control over their lives.

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