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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. What does Nathaniel call the girl he meets at his restaurant job and starts a relationship with, though it is not her real name?
(a) Sophie.
(b) Maria.
(c) Ethel.
(d) Agnes.

2. What story does Arthur McCash tell Nathaniel he must give him?
(a) Oliver Twist.
(b) Kavalier and Clay.
(c) James Bond.
(d) Sherlock Holmes.

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

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

5. Where do Nathaniel and his sister go shortly after their mother leaves for Singapore?
(a) To live with an aunt.
(b) Boarding school.
(c) To live with grandparents.
(d) To an orphanage in America.

Short Answer Questions

1. What story does The Moth tell Nathaniel about his mother during the war in the section titled "A Table Full of Strangers"?

2. Why does Nathaniel introduce The Darter to Agnes as his father?

3. What job did The Moth and Nathaniel's mother do together during the war?

4. Which of the men whose care Nathaniel and Rachel are left in does Nathaniel most prefer?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Nathaniel remember about Rose packing her steamer trunk for her trip to Singapore?

2. What does Nathaniel's and Rachel's brief time alone with their mother just before she leaves for Singapore feel like for Nathaniel?

3. What story does Nathaniel's mother tell her children about the family of roofers who worked on her childhood home?

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

5. Why is Rachel so upset at the end of Part I of the book, as she and Nathaniel are whisked away from the Bark Theater?

6. What does Nathaniel especially remember about his visit to his father's Unilever office?

7. Just before Nathaniel's mother departs for Singapore, what does she start telling the children for the first time?

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

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

10. What happens to Nathaniel and Rachel in the beginning of the section titled "Schwer"?

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