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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Susan attempt to get passage to Africa for Friday?
(a) With the money from Mr. Foe.
(b) She asks her dance partner.
(c) By telling the captain he is loyal and strong.
(d) By getting him a job as a deckhand.

2. How does Susan feel about allowing the watcher to stay with her in Part Two?
(a) Hopeful.
(b) Fearful.
(c) Curious.
(d) Agitated.

3. What does Susan do with the money she receives from Mr. Foe in the beginning of Part Two?
(a) Takes it to her grandfather.
(b) Puts it in a chest, but refuses to use it.
(c) Buys clothes for Friday and pays rent.
(d) Buys food and shoes.

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

5. How do Susan and Friday live in their new location at the end of May in Part Two?
(a) Like kings.
(b) Above chaos, but in a space of peace.
(c) Simply, but happily.
(d) With the curtains drawn.

6. Who does Susan believe sent the person who watches the house where Susan and Friday live?
(a) God.
(b) George Lewes.
(c) A lawyer.
(d) Mr. Foe.

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

8. 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.

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

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

11. What does Susan lament in the telling of her story?
(a) That she doesn't know how Friday lost his tongue.
(b) That she never learned how to write.
(c) That Cruso isn't alive to help her tell it.
(d) That she can't claim a child conceived on the island.

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

13. 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.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where does Susan put the finished pages of her story?

3. What do Susan and Friday grow in their garden?

4. Who does the person who watches the house where Susan and Friday live claim to be?

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

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