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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. Why would Rose Williams remember September?
(a) It was the month when she and Marsh Felon had an affair.
(b) It was when she lost her first child.
(c) It was the month she was shot for the first time.
(d) It was the month she had her first mission as a spy.

2. What does Mr. Malakite do for a living?
(a) He is a roofer.
(b) He farms vegetables.
(c) He paints houses.
(d) He is an accountant.

3. Why do the inhabitants of The Saints take down the road signs during the war?
(a) To challenge the locals.
(b) To play a cruel trick on allied soldiers.
(c) To confuse enemy soldiers.
(d) To amuse themselves.

4. Why do Nathaniel and Rachel live with Rose's mother during the war for a time?
(a) So they can get a better education.
(b) So they are safer from the Blitz that is happening in London.
(c) So they will not witness their father's health decline.
(d) So they will not be kidnapped.

5. What does Rose do when she learns a stranger has moved into White Paint?
(a) Sets booby traps all around her own house.
(b) Takes the stranger's fingerprints in secret.
(c) Gathers information about the stranger from others in town, including the postman.
(d) Breaks into the stranger's house and steals a lock of hair for analysis.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Nathaniel have dinner with in the section titled "Arthur McCash," to ask questions about his childhood?

2. What does Nathaniel find in one of the books on his mother's shelf in White Paint?

3. Why does Marsh Felon's interrogator in Italy decide the woman she is asking him about is probably very attractive?

4. What name is Marsh Felon sometimes known by?

5. What hotel does Rose first work on the roof of as a fire watcher during the war?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. In the section titled "In the Archives," what does Nathaniel feel he has lost along with any details about his mother's work in the war?

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

5. How does Nathaniel figure out that Agnes is The Darter's wife?

6. What does Marsh Felon teach Rose how to do in the section titled "Wildfowling"?

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

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

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

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

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