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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III (pages 101 - 134).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Nathaniel's sister show him that casts doubt on their mother's whereabouts in the section titled "Hell-Fire"?
(a) She finds their mother's passport tucked in a drawer.
(b) She finds a letter from their father telling them not to trust their mother.
(c) She finds their mother's steamer trunk stowed in the basement of their house.
(d) She finds a letter from their mother to The Moth saying she is in Italy.

2. Who does Nathaniel buy a house from in Suffolk?
(a) Olive Lawrence.
(b) Mrs. Malakite.
(c) The Darter.
(d) Marsh Felon.

3. Why does Nathaniel really not want Agnes to meet his parents?
(a) Agnes is too young.
(b) They are out of the country and he does not even know where they are.
(c) He feels Agnes is not really attractive.
(d) Agnes is working-class and that embarrasses him.

4. Which book do Nathaniel and his sister imitate in tracking their mother across London before she leaves on her trip to Singapore?
(a) Great Expectations.
(b) Madame Bovary.
(c) The Woman in White.
(d) The Last of The Mohicans.

5. What wisdom does Olive Lawrence murmur to Nathaniel that comes back to him as an adult?
(a) The past is a foreign country.
(b) The self is not the principal thing.
(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.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Nathaniel tell about what happens to him in the underground that scares him?

2. Which character does Nathaniel hear stories of young sexual exploits from at one of his holiday jobs as a young boy?

3. What happens to Nathaniel and Agnes on the city bus at the end of the section titled "Agnes Street"?

4. Who does Nathaniel think he catches a glimpse of at the dance club in Bromley?

5. What does the man Nathaniel knows as The Darter seem most interested in in his conversations with The Moth?

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