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

2. What kinds of clothes does Rose wear in White Paint?

3. What does Nathaniel find in his mother's walnut desk after she dies?

4. What injury does Marsh Felon sustain in his fall from Rose's roof?

5. What is one of the last things that Nathaniel says to his mother Rose before she dies?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is significant about the Malakites' house that Nathaniel buys in the section titled "The Saints"?

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. How do others in the British Intelligence Service seem to view Marsh Felon?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does Nathaniel's conduct when he secures a job at Britain's classified archives relate to Rose's activities as a covert agent during and after WWII? Write an essay comparing and contrasting Nathaniel's and Rose's professional conduct and aims.

Essay Topic 2

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 3

How does Nathaniel's work at Britain's classified archives affect his perception of both his country's and his mother's work during and after WWII? Write an essay explaining your answer, citing specific references to the text.

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