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

2. Who taught Nathaniel how to pick the locks of filing cabinets in his youth?
(a) His mother.
(b) Same Malakite.
(c) Arthur McCash.
(d) A veterinarian whom he encountered during his work with The Darter.

3. What hotel does Rose first work on the roof of as a fire watcher during the war?
(a) The Grosvenor Hotel.
(b) The Wynn Hotel.
(c) The Beachwalk Hotel.
(d) The Intercontinental Hotel.

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

5. Who does Nathaniel have dinner with in the section titled "Arthur McCash," to ask questions about his childhood?
(a) The Moth.
(b) Arthur McCash.
(c) Olive Lawrence.
(d) The Darter.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of a state does the narrator Nathaniel say one must be in to write a memoir in the section titled "The Saints"?

2. What does Rose tell Nathaniel an opponent will do in the game she teaches him in White Paint?

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

4. Who does Nathaniel hear on a tape during his work in the archives whose voice he recognizes?

5. What is the name of the town in Suffolk where Nathaniel buys his house in the section titled "The Saints"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when a person steps on the nightingale floor in Rose's house in White Paint?

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

3. How do Rachel's feelings towards Rose, her mother, change after the incident in the Bark Theater?

4. What does Nathaniel eventually learn about the exact way in which his mother died?

5. What does Nathaniel find between the pages of a book in his mother's house that intrigues him?

6. What is the real reason The Darter is so awkward with Nathaniel at their meeting in the book's final pages?

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

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

9. How is Rose Williams' death noted in the press?

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

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