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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Olive Lawrence seem capable of to Nathaniel that none of the other visitors to his house seem capable of?

2. What does The Moth suggest Nathaniel do during school holidays at the end of the section titled "Hell-Fire"?

3. What was the boy's name who fell through Nathaniel's mother's roof as a child?

4. What does Arthur McCash tell Nathaniel that Nathaniel's mother is doing?

5. What does The Moth tell Nathaniel about his father in the section titled "Hell-Fire"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What one memorable story does the Moth tell Nathaniel and Rachel about Rose during his time working with Rose in the war?

2. What does Nathaniel remember about Rose packing her steamer trunk for her trip to Singapore?

3. How is Arthur McCash different from other guests who had cycled through Ruvigny Gardens?

4. What does Nathaniel especially remember about his visit to his father's Unilever office?

5. How does Nathaniel first meet the girl he comes to know as Agnes?

6. Who are the first people Nathaniel sees when he wakes up from being knocked out in the section titled "Schwer"?

7. What story does Nathaniel's mother tell her children about the family of roofers who worked on her childhood home?

8. What does Nathaniel tell Agnes to try to conceal the truth of his family situation?

9. How did The Moth react when The Darter and Olive Lawrence would fight?

10. How does The Darter seem to feel about Agnes, and how does that in turn affect how Nathaniel feels about her?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Rose meets Marsh Felon, the man who eventually recruits her to work for British Intelligence, when they are both very young and he and his family are completing roofing work on her family's house. Write an essay discussing Rose's path to her dangerous work as a spy, including the specific event and feelings that prompted her to start her work.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay analyzing why Rose begins teaching Nathaniel to play chess. What does the game seem to represent for each of them?

Essay Topic 3

Through Nathaniel's first-person narration, Ondaatje writes, "Ours was a family with a habit for nicknames, which meant it was also a family of disguises" (7). Write an essay analyzing the connections between the use of nicknames, secrecy, and concealment in Warlight.

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