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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV (pages 135 - 180).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What song does The Darter habitually hum as he and Nathaniel travel on the barge?
(a) But Not For Me.
(b) Battle Hymn of the Republic.
(c) Show Boat.
(d) Weary of War.

2. Where did Nathaniel's mother grow up?
(a) Corning.
(b) Cornwall.
(c) Suffolk.
(d) The Cotswolds.

3. What is Nathaniel's mother's nickname for him?
(a) Darter.
(b) Sweetheart.
(c) Stitch.
(d) Moth.

4. What does Nathaniel's mother say when he first sees the red scars all along her arm?
(a) That she got burned cooking during the war.
(b) That she had cut herself out of anxiety and fear.
(c) That it is nothing, just the street of small daggers.
(d) That it had been part of her training by the British government.

5. Who does Nathaniel tell about what happens to him in the underground that scares him?
(a) The Darter.
(b) The Moth.
(c) His mother.
(d) Rachel.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rachel name her baby?

2. Where does The Moth almost exclusively eat?

3. What rank does Nathaniel's grandfather, his mother's father, eventually attain?

4. What is Rose's reaction when Nathaniel mentions that Olive Lawrence was an ethnographer?

5. What kind of part-time job does Rachel get in the section titled "The Mussel Boat"?

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