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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 tell Nathaniel about her feelings about their childhood?
(a) She will never forgive their father.
(b) The Darter used to hit her to discipline her.
(c) She has managed to forgive their mother.
(d) They were both damaged.

2. Who is the woman who first recruits Marsh Felon for the British Intelligence Service?
(a) Rose Williams.
(b) Rachel Williams.
(c) Ruth Howard.
(d) Olive Lawrence.

3. What is Rose's reaction when Nathaniel mentions that Olive Lawrence was an ethnographer?
(a) She indignantly states that Olive was not just an ethnographer.
(b) She says Olive was actually a brilliant code-breaker at Bletchley Park.
(c) She says Olive was the most talented spy she knew.
(d) She says Olive was actually a double-agent working for the Russians.

4. What is the phrase that refers to a high perspective that lets a person see into usually hidden distances?
(a) 360 Degree technique.
(b) Nightingale Window technique.
(c) Lost-roof technique.
(d) Seeing Through the Walls technique.

5. What kind of car reminds Nathaniel of The Darter?
(a) A red Corvette
(b) A black Beetle.
(c) A blue Morris.
(d) A gray Ford.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a distinctive feature of Rose Williams' floor in White Paint?

2. What does the person who finds Rose Williams' body do after he finds her?

3. What kind of floor is in Rose Williams' house in White Paint?

4. What does Marsh Felon make for Rose when he stays in her family's house?

5. Who is really The Darter's wife?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Who does Nathaniel most wish to find a way to track down from what he discovers in the archives?

6. What does Rose cite as a major reason why she joined the British Intelligence Service?

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

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

9. What does Marsh Felon send Rose out to buy supplies for when he stays in Rose's house as an adolescent?

10. Who is one of the first people from his youth Nathaniel runs into when he starts work at the archives in the section titled "In the Archives"?

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