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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What rank does Nathaniel's grandfather, his mother's father, eventually attain?
(a) Captain.
(b) Lieutenant.
(c) Colonel.
(d) Admiral.

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"?
(a) A heightened state.
(b) An agitated state.
(c) A peaceful state.
(d) An orphan state.

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

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

5. What was the one newspaper where Rose Williams' death was mentioned?
(a) The Mint Light.
(b) The Guardian.
(c) The Quinn Courant.
(d) The Richmond Record.

6. Why do the inhabitants of The Saints take down the road signs during the war?
(a) To amuse themselves.
(b) To challenge the locals.
(c) To play a cruel trick on allied soldiers.
(d) To confuse enemy soldiers.

7. What does Nathaniel think The Darter's daughter's name is?
(a) Agnes.
(b) Pearl.
(c) Sophie.
(d) Maria.

8. What program does Marsh Felon host on BBC Radio?
(a) The Naturalist's Hour.
(b) Flora and Fauna of the English Countryside.
(c) The Hedgehog's Burrow.
(d) The Sea Green Walk.

9. What had The Moth once promised Nathaniel sitting by the fire in Ruvigny Gardens?
(a) That Rachel would not have any more seizures.
(b) That Nathaniel's father would be back soon.
(c) That he would stay with Nathaniel and Rachel until their mother returned.
(d) That Nathaniel would be successful some day.

10. What is Rose's reaction when Nathaniel mentions that Olive Lawrence was an ethnographer?
(a) She indignantly states that Olive was not just an ethnographer.
(b) She says Olive was actually a brilliant code-breaker at Bletchley Park.
(c) She says Olive was actually a double-agent working for the Russians.
(d) She says Olive was the most talented spy she knew.

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

12. What name is Marsh Felon sometimes known by?
(a) The Ghost.
(b) Long-Flew Knife.
(c) James Bond.
(d) The Rooftop Jumper.

13. 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.

14. Why does Nathaniel bang a pot upon entering his mother's house after she dies?
(a) To follow a tradition she followed, to scare away a "rat."
(b) Because he thinks his mother would want him to do that.
(c) Because he thinks there are thieves there.
(d) Because he thinks it is good luck.

15. What does Rachel name her baby?
(a) Norman.
(b) Arthur.
(c) Nathaniel.
(d) Walter.

Short Answer Questions

1. What general area of life does Marsh Felon have a particularly good knowledge of?

2. What does Nathaniel see on The Darter's wall that reveals what is really going on?

3. Who drives Rose back to London after her parents' funeral?

4. What happens to Nathaniel's father after he leaves for Singapore during Nathaniel's childhood?

5. Where does Sophie work?

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