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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where was Rose Williams buried?
(a) In London.
(b) In the parish of Benacre in the Waveney District.
(c) In White Paint.
(d) In Glasgow.

2. Who taught Nathaniel how to pick the locks of filing cabinets in his youth?
(a) Same Malakite.
(b) His mother.
(c) A veterinarian whom he encountered during his work with The Darter.
(d) Arthur McCash.

3. What does Nathaniel find he has a particular talent for?
(a) Learning foreign languages.
(b) Drawing.
(c) Code-breaking.
(d) Physics.

4. How does Nathaniel feels The Darter treats him when he goes to visit?
(a) Warmly.
(b) Angrily.
(c) As if Nathaniel is a son.
(d) Coldly and awkwardly.

5. What kind of floor is in Rose Williams' house in White Paint?
(a) A heated floor.
(b) A nightingale floor.
(c) A ceramic tile floor.
(d) A cedar floor.

6. What is the only thing Rachel will say about Rose after the incident at the Bark Theater?
(a) "I hate my mother."
(b) "My mother betrayed us."
(c) "I have issues with my mother."
(d) "I love my mother, but I can not be around her."

7. What was the newspaper that the local Reverend produced?
(a) The Moggs Journal.
(b) The Richmond Record.
(c) The Mint Light.
(d) The Quinn Conversation.

8. How does Rose Williams refer to herself when speaking about herself to other British intelligence agents during her missions?
(a) In the third person, as if someone might be listening.
(b) By her mother's maiden name, which is her code name.
(c) By her first name only.
(d) By her last name only.

9. What does Sam Malakite say to Nathaniel when he tells Malakite he was shy in his youth?
(a) You are like a wren who is building his nest.
(b) You have a quiet heart.
(c) You are more gregarious than you give yourself credit for.
(d) You are only introverted.

10. What does Marsh Felon use as a means to demonstrate to Rose the importance of knowing how to extract oneself from somewhere?
(a) A natural whirlpool.
(b) An underground cave.
(c) A groundhog burrow.
(d) An old wasp's nest.

11. What does Rose do when she learns a stranger has moved into White Paint?
(a) Takes the stranger's fingerprints in secret.
(b) Gathers information about the stranger from others in town, including the postman.
(c) Sets booby traps all around her own house.
(d) Breaks into the stranger's house and steals a lock of hair for analysis.

12. How does Nathaniel finally track down The Darter?
(a) He bribes someone at the government ministry.
(b) He finds The Darter's contact information hidden in his mother's desk.
(c) He finds a business card with his phone number.
(d) He looks through the archives' files on all their drivers and finds The Darter's picture there.

13. What poet does Marsh Felon read a work from during his BBC radio program that is a mediation on the destruction war wreaks on the natural world?
(a) Henry Longfellow.
(b) Thomas Hardy.
(c) Robert Louis Stevenson.
(d) William Wordsworth.

14. What is the saying Rose has heard about Naples, Italy?
(a) There are always miracles here.
(b) You can hide in the shadows.
(c) The wolves run this city.
(d) There is always a friend nearby.

15. What street in Naples does Rose find herself on after her escape from captivity?
(a) The street of small daggers.
(b) Via Veneto.
(c) Via Napoli.
(d) The street of three exits.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who finds Rose Williams after she died?

2. What kind of a state does the narrator Nathaniel say one must be in to write a memoir in the section titled "The Saints"?

3. What is a distinctive feature of Rose Williams' floor in White Paint?

4. Who is really the biological father of The Darter's daughter?

5. What does Rachel tell Nathaniel about her feelings about their childhood?

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