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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. How do Joss and his friends kill the carriage driver?

2. What alerts Mary to someone being outside in Chapter 13?

3. Why doesn't Mary let Jem into the Inn?

4. After telling Mr. Davey what Joss had revealed, what does Mr. Davey say to Mary?

5. Why had Mr. Davey medicated Mary in Chapter 16?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Mr. Davey tell Mary when she confides Joss's confession to him?

2. When Mary arrives back at the inn how does she know Joss is still there? What does Mary find when she goes inside?

3. What does Jem tell Mary when they meet on the moors in Chapter 18? What does Mary decide?

4. When Mary goes to North Hill, what does Mrs. Basset tell her?

5. Where does Mary go to find Jem in Chapter 9? Where has he gone, and who tells Mary that information?

6. How does Mary disappoint the squire in Chapter 15?

7. What does Mary discover when she wakes in the carriage in Chapter 11? What does she do?

8. What does Mary tell Joss when he questions her about her trip to Launceston?

9. Why does Mr. Davey insist on running away with Mary?

10. Who finally buys Jem's second pony? Why did he try to prevent the sale to this person?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the Gothic romance genre of the novel "Jamaica Inn." What are the elements of this genre? Why is "Jamaica Inn" an example of this genre? What are some other novels of the same genre? What do these novels have in common with "Jamaica Inn?"

Essay Topic 2

Analyze the imagery that Du Maurier uses in "Jamaica Inn." What are some examples of imagery in the novel? What themes or ideas do these examples represent?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the motif of fear in the novel "Jamaica Inn." What are some examples of fear in the novel? What does Mary fear and why? Does she face her fears?

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