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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 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 with more delicious food than 100 men could eat in one hundred days.
(b) An entire town full of life-sized dolls that were replicas of the people who once lived there.
(c) An entire town of slaughtered runaway slaves.
(d) An entire town full of only graves.

2. How does Mr. Goff react on the voyage in Part IV, Chapter 1, when a woman insults Washington?
(a) He is indifferent.
(b) He is outraged and nearly makes a scene.
(c) He is terribly sad.
(d) He appears composed but later goes back and kills the woman.

3. What does Titch's father refuse to do in Part II, Chapter 7 that infuriates Titch?
(a) He refuses to leave with Titch.
(b) He refuses to acknowledge Titch's contributions to his research.
(c) He refuses to tell Erasmus and Titch's mother he is still alive.
(d) He refuses to give Titch money.

4. What does Mrs. Wilde want to know from Washington when he and Tanna go to visit her?
(a) How he had felt about Erasmus.
(b) What kind of relationship he had with Titch.
(c) What had really happened to Philip.
(d) What happened when her husband died.

5. What is Tanna's favorite marine creature?
(a) An octopus.
(b) A common snail.
(c) A nudibranch.
(d) An electric eel.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mr. Goff ask Washington to do with him in Part III, Chapter 9?

2. What does Medwin do in Part III, Chapter 3, to help protect Washington?

3. What does Mr. Goff declare he wants in the beginning of Part IV, Chapter 8?

4. Why does Washington at first mistake Tanna for a man?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Peter House tell Washington happened to Titch when he left the camp in the Arctic before Mr. Wilde died?

2. What task does Mr. Goff ask Washington to assist him with in Part III, Chapter 9, that Washington is honored to do?

3. What does Robert Solander tell Tanna and Washington he noticed about Titch that was odd in Part IV, Chapter 6?

4. In Part III, Chapter 10, who does Washington meet that chills his blood and why does he feel such fear?

5. In Part II, Chapter 7, what does Washington dream about Kit?

6. What does Medwin tell Washington in Part III, Chapter 5, that upends his life and makes him tremble with anxiety?

7. What excuse presents itself for Washington to travel to Amsterdam so he can look for Peter House?

8. What surprises Washington the most about his meeting with Willard in Part III?

9. In Part III, Chapter 2, why does Washington eventually stop using an alias?

10. What does Washington discover about Tanna Goff's father in Part III, Chapter 6?

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