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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What innovative idea does Washington propose to the Goffs in Part III, Chapter 9?
(a) A living exhibit of sea creatures.
(b) A new museum that is illustrated with watercolors.
(c) Gene-splicing two fish together.
(d) Growing new seaweed to feed to the squid.

2. What is Mr. Goff's cat's name?
(a) Medusa.
(b) Persephone.
(c) Ariadne.
(d) Circe.

3. How does Washington eventually struggle free of Willard's assault in Part III, Chapter 11?
(a) He strangles Willard.
(b) He bludgeons Willard with a piece of wood.
(c) He shoots Willard.
(d) He stabs Willard.

4. What does Mr. Goff ask Washington to do with him in Part III, Chapter 9?
(a) Go to the Royal Society with him.
(b) Send Tanna to school.
(c) Move to England.
(d) Illustrate his new book.

5. What does Tanna ask Washington to do for her and her father in Part III, Chapter 7?
(a) Write a book with she and her father.
(b) Dive for specimens since neither she nor her father can do it.
(c) Travel to Morocco to find her mother.
(d) Travel to Amsterdam to pick up a rare specimen.

6. What does the man who gives Washington more information about Titch in Part IV, Chapter 6 say was odd about Titch when he last saw him?
(a) He was smoking incessantly.
(b) He had gained a lot of weight.
(c) His clothes were too small for him.
(d) He was talking to himself.

7. What does Washington's dinner companion in Part III, Chapter 10, say he encountered in an American town a short while earlier?
(a) An entire town full of only graves.
(b) An entire town with more delicious food than 100 men could eat in one hundred days.
(c) An entire town full of life-sized dolls that were replicas of the people who once lived there.
(d) An entire town of slaughtered runaway slaves.

8. What is Tanna's father's name?
(a) James Goff.
(b) Alfred Willard Goff.
(c) Geoffrey Michael Goff.
(d) John Michael Goff.

9. What does Titch do in the end of Part II, Chapter 7?
(a) Throws all his instruments into the sea.
(b) Shoots at Washington.
(c) Kills himself.
(d) Leaves the camp in a blizzard, into what appears to be certain death.

10. Why does Washington at first mistake Tanna for a man?
(a) She is wearing trousers and he sees her at a distance.
(b) She has taken much care to disguise herself as a man.
(c) She has a muscular frame.
(d) She has a very deep voice.

11. Who does Washington go to see in Amsterdam in Part IV, Chapter 10?
(a) Medwin.
(b) Emilie.
(c) Peter House (Haas).
(d) Big Kit.

12. What is Washington's favorite marine creature?
(a) A hermit crab.
(b) A common snail.
(c) A nudibranch.
(d) An electric eel.

13. What is the name of Washington's friend that he meets in Part III, Chapter 3?
(a) Medger Evers.
(b) James Madison.
(c) Jacob Fensten.
(d) Medwin Harris.

14. What does Tanna beg her father for years to allow her to wear?
(a) Jewels, makeup, and fashionable clothes.
(b) Hair clips.
(c) Scarves.
(d) High heels.

15. What was missing from Washington's first experiment that he remedies in his second experiment in Part III, Chapter 10?
(a) Light.
(b) Water.
(c) Cold.
(d) Heat.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Tanna feel about Washington's obsession with finding Titch?

2. Who does Washington meet in Part III, Chapter 4, who changes his life for the better?

3. What does Washington begin doing again in Part III, Chapter 4, that he had enjoyed and not done for a long time?

4. Why does Washington think for a brief while that Tanna might be married?

5. What is the first thing Titch says to Washington when the two finally meet again?

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