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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 kind of list about their father did Nathaniel write as a kind of a joke and send to Rachel?
(a) A list of possible aliases their father could be using.
(b) A list of possible women their father could have married.
(c) A list of possible dishes their father could be cooking.
(d) A list of possible fates that could have befallen their father.

2. Who is really The Darter's wife?
(a) Rachel.
(b) Florence.
(c) Maria.
(d) Agnes, Nathaniel's teenage girlfriend.

3. What happens to Nathaniel's father after he leaves for Singapore during Nathaniel's childhood?
(a) Nathaniel never finds out.
(b) He marries another woman and has a second family.
(c) He dies in a drowning accident.
(d) He is killed by robbers.

4. What author does Rose Williams have a particular fondness for?
(a) Balzac.
(b) Wordsworth.
(c) Dickens.
(d) Austen.

5. How does Rose Williams refer to herself when speaking about herself to other British intelligence agents during her missions?
(a) In the third person, as if someone might be listening.
(b) By her mother's maiden name, which is her code name.
(c) By her last name only.
(d) By her first name only.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who from Nathaniel's past has produced a television documentary he wants to watch?

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

3. Why would Rose Williams remember September?

4. If Nathaniel had had the chance to ask his mother what she had done that was so terrible during the war, what does he imagine her answering?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Who finds Rose's body and what does that person do following the discovery?

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

5. What kind of work does Marsh Felon do besides his work for the British Intelligence Service?

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

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

8. What was Nathaniel's relationship with Mr. Sam Malakite like when Nathaniel was a teenager?

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

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

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