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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part V (pages 181 - 244).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of part-time job does Rachel get in the section titled "The Mussel Boat"?
(a) Stage work.
(b) A cooking job.
(c) A cleaning job.
(d) A writing job.

2. Where does Rachel go immediately after the attack at the Bark Theater?
(a) To a boarding school in America.
(b) To a boarding school near the Welsh border.
(c) To live in an nunnery.
(d) To live with a family in Ireland.

3. Why do Nathaniel and Rachel live with Rose's mother during the war for a time?
(a) So they will not be kidnapped.
(b) So they will not witness their father's health decline.
(c) So they can get a better education.
(d) So they are safer from the Blitz that is happening in London.

4. What wisdom does Olive Lawrence murmur to Nathaniel that comes back to him as an adult?
(a) The self is not the principal thing.
(b) The past is a foreign country.
(c) Forgive your parents their sins, for you do not know what they have suffered.
(d) We need other people to fill in what we can not remember ourselves.

5. What is Rose Williams' code name?
(a) Viola.
(b) Tulip.
(c) Radiance.
(d) Peony.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Nathaniel find in his mother's walnut desk after she dies?

2. Which of the men whose care Nathaniel and Rachel are left in does Nathaniel most prefer?

3. What does Agnes tell Nathaniel she lies awake at night and wishes for?

4. How long after Rose's death is Nathaniel invited to apply for work at the Foreign Office?

5. Who does Agnes draw a portrait of on one of the barge trips?

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