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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does The Darter feel about Agnes?
(a) He loves her.
(b) He thinks she and Nathaniel are a terrible match.
(c) He does not like her.
(d) He does not trust her.

2. What is The Darter's real name?
(a) Arthur McCash.
(b) Sam Malakite.
(c) Norman Marshall.
(d) Marsh Felon.

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

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

5. Where does Nathaniel start his first paying job?
(a) In the kitchen of La Mia Amici.
(b) In the fields of a local farm.
(c) In the sound room at the BBC radio station.
(d) In the laundry room of The Criterion.

6. What does The Moth tell Nathaniel about his father in the section titled "Hell-Fire"?
(a) That Nathaniel's father is likely dead by now.
(b) That Nathaniel's father has always hated dogs.
(c) That Nathaniel's father once killed Nathaniel's pet cat.
(d) That Nathaniel's father is a talented spy.

7. How does Nathaniel manage to escape from his pursuers in the underground?
(a) He runs very fast to get away.
(b) He has his pocket knife with him and stabs one of the men.
(c) He knows the buttons and levers in the lift, so he kicked the brake up to start the lift moving again and escaped.
(d) He does a spell to ward off the attackers.

8. Who finds Rachel hiding with The Darter at the Bark Theater?
(a) Nathaniel's mother.
(b) Marsh Felon.
(c) The Moth.
(d) Arthur McCash.

9. Where does The Darter take one of his girlfriends that Nathaniel gets to know well on their first date?
(a) To a puppet show.
(b) An art museum.
(c) A Greek restaurant.
(d) A cemetery.

10. In what year do Nathaniel's parents tell him they are traveling to Singapore?
(a) 1960.
(b) 1945.
(c) 1936.
(d) 1940.

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

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

13. In the section titled "Agnes Street," where does Nathaniel find a restaurant job?
(a) Sussex.
(b) Charing Cross.
(c) World's End.
(d) Whitechapel.

14. Where does The Moth work?
(a) Mia Amici restaurant.
(b) A local farm.
(c) A local pub called Owens.
(d) The Criterion banquet hall.

15. Who appears at Nathaniel's house for the first time the day after his frightening episode in the underground?
(a) Arthur McCash.
(b) Sam Malakite.
(c) His father.
(d) The Darter.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which illness does Rachel develop as a child?

2. What is the name of the dance club in Bromley where Nathaniel takes Agnes one night?

3. Who does Nathaniel buy a house from in Suffolk?

4. What happens to Nathaniel one night in the underground that shakes him and scares him?

5. What company does Nathaniel's father work for?

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