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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 does Marsh Felon feel about Rose?
(a) He is sexually attracted to her.
(b) He does not like her, but he realizes she is talented.
(c) He is sworn to protect her through a promise he made to her father.
(d) He loves her like a sister.

2. What game does Rose teach Nathaniel to play in White Paint?
(a) Poker.
(b) Bridge.
(c) Cricket.
(d) Chess.

3. What does Nathaniel say when he hears Mr. Malakite has died?
(a) He was a good man.
(b) Once a farmer, always a farmer.
(c) Only in open fields.
(d) A man of nature is a gentle man.

4. Who finds Rose Williams after she died?
(a) Marsh Felon.
(b) Nathaniel.
(c) Mrs. Malakite.
(d) Sam Malakite.

5. What injury does Marsh Felon sustain in his fall from Rose's roof?
(a) Two broken legs.
(b) A broken hip.
(c) A broken neck.
(d) A broken arm.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Arthur McCash greet Nathaniel when he encounters him for the first time as an adult working in the archives?

2. What is Mr. Malakite's disposition?

3. What does Nathaniel find in his mother's walnut desk after she dies?

4. What is Rose's reaction when Nathaniel mentions that Olive Lawrence was an ethnographer?

5. Who taught Nathaniel how to pick the locks of filing cabinets in his youth?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Nathaniel interested in the sea pea plant?

2. What does Sam Malakite do for Nathaniel at Rose's funeral?

3. Why does Marsh Felon have to spend several weeks in Rose's family house as an adolescent?

4. What does Rose tell Nathaniel when he asks her about what happened to The Moth?

5. What kind of a relationship does Marsh Felon have with his own family as an adult?

6. How do others in the British Intelligence Service seem to view Marsh Felon?

7. What does Nathaniel find in a desk in his mother's house after she dies that surprises him?

8. In the section titled "Arthur McCash," what one piece of information does Nathaniel finally uncover about what specific job Rose performed during the war?

9. How does Nathaniel feel about The Darter after their meeting as adults, when Nathaniel finally tracks The Darter down?

10. Why did American Airmen stationed in The Saints area during the war constantly get lost there?

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