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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do Nathaniel's mother's parents die?
(a) In a car crash.
(b) They each die of cancer.
(c) They are killed in the war by a bombing.
(d) In a fire.

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

3. What is a rumor that Nathaniel hears about Arthur McCash?
(a) That he can speak in tongues.
(b) That he knows Esperanto, the oldest language.
(c) That he is the president's secret assistant.
(d) That he is really a Russian spy.

4. What does Nathaniel ask the owner of the house he is buying to help him sketch out?
(a) The location of the treasure he thinks she has hidden there.
(b) The location of secret passageways used in the war.
(c) The location of the munitions he knows are buried in the yard.
(d) The location of seeds and plants in the garden.

5. Who is killed protecting Nathaniel and Rachel outside the Bark Theater?
(a) The Darter.
(b) Their father.
(c) Arthur McCash.
(d) The Moth.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does The Darter feel about Agnes?

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

3. What does Nathaniel's sister show him that casts doubt on their mother's whereabouts in the section titled "Hell-Fire"?

4. What does Olive Lawrence seem capable of to Nathaniel that none of the other visitors to his house seem capable of?

5. Who is Nathaniel's sister?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who are the first people Nathaniel sees when he wakes up from being knocked out in the section titled "Schwer"?

2. Who helps Nathaniel and Rachel during Rachel's first episode with epilepsy, and what does that person do?

3. How do Nathaniel and Rachel feel about becoming boarders at their new schools after their mother and father leave for Singapore in Chapter 1?

4. What does Nathaniel tell Agnes to try to conceal the truth of his family situation?

5. How did The Moth react when The Darter and Olive Lawrence would fight?

6. How is Arthur McCash different from other guests who had cycled through Ruvigny Gardens?

7. Why does Nathaniel come to know Agnes as Agnes?

8. What does Olive insist that Rachel and Nathaniel do with her one evening?

9. What one memorable story does the Moth tell Nathaniel and Rachel about Rose during his time working with Rose in the war?

10. What does Nathaniel get in trouble for, that generations of boys before him have also done, at his boarding school in Chapter 1?

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