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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What elements does Susan suggest adding to her story?
(a) Cannibals and corn seeds.
(b) Passion and sex.
(c) Pregnancy and how Friday lost his tongue.
(d) Another group of hostile cast-aways.

2. What happens when Susan tries to give the person who watches the house a packet of letters?
(a) The person hands her a slim envelope.
(b) The person refuses them.
(c) Susan is attacked and knocked unconscious.
(d) Susan faints upon recognizing the person.

3. Who is George Lewes?
(a) The young constable.
(b) The man young Susan says is her father.
(c) Mr. Foe's brother.
(d) An attorney.

4. What does Susan worry about regarding the story of her life as a cast-away?
(a) That she won't make enough money to live off of it,
(b) That people will findher immoral.
(c) That people will think she is lying.
(d) That it isn't exciting enough.

5. What does Susan say the terraces on the island come to resemble with the passage of time?
(a) Birth and death.
(b) Tombs.
(c) Monuments.
(d) Folly.

6. What best describe the dwelling where Susan lives in Part Two?
(a) A second story apartment.
(b) Her grandfather's house.
(c) A rented cottage.
(d) An inn.

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

8. Who claims to have been born in Deptford in May of 1702?
(a) George Lewes.
(b) Young Susan.
(c) Mr. Foe.
(d) Shane LaFountain.

9. How does Friday respond to live in the city, at the beginning of Part Two?
(a) He is fascinated by it.
(b) He is not happy.
(c) He is agitated and scared.
(d) He shows no change at all.

10. Who does the person who watches the house where Susan and Friday live claim to be?
(a) Mr. Foe's aunt.
(b) Mr. Foe's brother.
(c) Susan's uncle.
(d) Susan's daughter.

11. What does Susan thank Mr. Foe for giving back to her?
(a) Dignity.
(b) A sense of purpose.
(c) Independence.
(d) Substance.

12. What do Susan and Friday grow in their garden?
(a) Cabbage and corn.
(b) Carrots and beans.
(c) Weeds and wildflowers.
(d) Peas and potatoes.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Susan do with the money she receives from Mr. Foe in the beginning of Part Two?

2. What do Susan and Friday start to do together in Part Two?

3. What does Susan compare Friday to when she decides not to send him on the ship?

4. What does Susan find in a case?

5. What does Mr. Foe say it is a shame that Cruso didn't save from the wreck?

(see the answer keys)

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