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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 The Moth suggest Nathaniel do during school holidays at the end of the section titled "Hell-Fire"?
(a) Learn how to shoot a gun.
(b) Get a job to earn a little money.
(c) Start learning how to cook.
(d) Work abroad in America for a while.

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

3. What does the stranger in the cinema give to Rachel when she has a seizure to help her?
(a) An ice cream.
(b) A shot of some medication.
(c) A bracelet to identify her illness.
(d) A wallet to put in her mouth.

4. What does Nathaniel's sister do when they realize their mother has lied to them in the section titled "Hell-Fire"?
(a) She leaves the house without telling anyone where she is going.
(b) She sets out to look for her mother.
(c) She writes an angry letter to her father.
(d) She cuts her wrist.

5. What does the man Nathaniel knows as The Darter seem most interested in in his conversations with The Moth?
(a) Racing dogs.
(b) Cards.
(c) Bird-watching.
(d) Weapons.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Nathaniel's mother grow up?

2. What does Agnes draw on for the sketch that she gives to Nathaniel in the section titled "Agnes Street"?

3. Who is Nathaniel's sister?

4. What does Nathaniel's mother tell the person tasked with finding Rachel at the Bark Theater to call out to get her to show herself?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does Agnes leave in Nathaniel's trouser pocket at the end of the section titled Agnes Street?

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

5. Why do Nathaniel and Rachel refer to Walter as The Moth?

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

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

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

9. How does The Darter seem to feel about Agnes, and how does that in turn affect how Nathaniel feels about her?

10. How does Olive tell Nathaniel she will stay in touch with he and Rachel after she leaves London, and does she make good on her word?

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