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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) If she is telling the truth.
(c) How Cruso really died.
(d) Why they didn't attempt escape.

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

3. 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) Returned to civilization alive.
(c) Experimented with cannibalism.
(d) Found a way off the island, if only by death.

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

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

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

7. What does Susan say about mothers and children?
(a) They share an unbreakable bond.
(b) Mothers carry a sense of their offspring for life.
(c) Children never seek lost parents.
(d) They burden each other for life.

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

9. What haunts Susan about what she finds on the side of the road at the end of Part Two?
(a) A word written on it.
(b) It's eyes.
(c) That it has been placed on a log in her path.
(d) A blood stain.

10. What does Susan suggest to Mr. Foe would be a good job for Friday?
(a) Carriage driver.
(b) Groomsman.
(c) Gardener.
(d) Man servant.

11. What does Susan tell her young guest about that person's father?
(a) He is a cruel man who has abandonded her.
(b) He is more spirit than human.
(c) He is a writer named Daniel Foe.
(d) He can not speak.

12. What best describes Susan's dance?
(a) A waltz.
(b) Graceful and emotional.
(c) Fun and lively.
(d) Wild spinning.

13. What does Susan say that eating human flesh is bound to be like?
(a) Eating chicken.
(b) Eating the meat at the pub.
(c) Any other mindless ritual.
(d) Any other human sin.

14. How are the events of Part Two communicated?
(a) Dialogue between Susan and Mr. Foe.
(b) In a series of letters.
(c) Third party narration.
(d) In a journal Susan dicates to Mr. Foe.

15. Who does Susan realize is willing to take Friday?
(a) Those who will sell him to slavers.
(b) The captain of the Hobart.
(c) Captain Maxwell.
(d) A fishing vessel.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Susan say is father-born?

2. What picture does Susan recall drawing for Friday?

3. Who does Susan take into the forest toward Cheshunt?

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

5. What does Susan worry about regarding the story of her life as a cast-away?

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