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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Susan put the finished pages of her story?
(a) In a chest.
(b) In a secretary desk.
(c) In the lining of a coat.
(d) In a basket on top of a desk.

2. What does Susan think is one of the questions that readers will wonder about her story?
(a) Why she and Cruso didn't become a couple.
(b) Why they didn't attempt escape.
(c) How Cruso really died.
(d) If she is telling the truth.

3. What is The King's Arms?
(a) A shop that sells trinkets.
(b) An inn and pub.
(c) Mr. Foe's home.
(d) Mr. Foe's first book.

4. What does Mr. Foe say it is a shame that Cruso didn't save from the wreck?
(a) Ink and paper.
(b) Muskets, powder or tools.
(c) Seeds of some sort.
(d) His wife.

5. How is Susan feeling when she starts to dance?
(a) Joyful.
(b) Wet and hungry.
(c) Furious.
(d) Ill.

6. Who does Susan notice watching the house where she lives with Friday, after they have moved to the second location?
(a) A young girl.
(b) A handsome young constable.
(c) The nosy old woman from the millner's shop.
(d) An old man.

7. What picture does Susan recall drawing for Friday?
(a) A man being shipwrecked.
(b) Cruso.
(c) The terraces with corn growing.
(d) Men cutting out another's tongue.

8. Susan tells Friday that he alone knows that their lives on the island where what?
(a) Spirit killing.
(b) Enough.
(c) Transformational.
(d) Dull.

9. What is the result of Susan's new attempted method of communication with Friday?
(a) She learns how he lost his tongue.
(b) He hits her.
(c) He reaches out for her hand.
(d) He ignores her.

10. Who receives a letter "for your master" in Part Two?
(a) Susan.
(b) The old man.
(c) Friday.
(d) The young girl.

11. Who does Susan take into the forest toward Cheshunt?
(a) Young Susan.
(b) Mr. Foe.
(c) Constable Greer.
(d) Mrs. Maxwell.

12. Who does Susan say is father-born?
(a) Cruso.
(b) Herself.
(c) Young Susan.
(d) George Lewes.

13. Where does Friday live in Part Two?
(a) In a large broom closet.
(b) In Susan's room.
(c) In a room next to Susan's.
(d) In a cellar.

14. Where does Susan dance?
(a) Outside in the rain.
(b) In a barn.
(c) In a ballroom.
(d) In a church.

15. What does Susan say Cruso would have done if he had been a true adventurer?
(a) Planted a seed in the only fertile womb on the island.
(b) Experimented with cannibalism.
(c) Found a way off the island, if only by death.
(d) Returned to civilization alive.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Susan compare to moving the stones on the island?

2. What does Susan teach Friday how to do, to keep him active?

3. What does Susan say the terraces on the island come to resemble with the passage of time?

4. What does Susan say about mothers and children?

5. Where do Susan and Friday go to find passage for Friday back to his native people?

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