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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the result of Susan's new attempted method of communication with Friday?
(a) She learns how he lost his tongue.
(b) He hits her.
(c) He reaches out for her hand.
(d) He ignores her.

2. What does Susan find in a case?
(a) Ink and a pen.
(b) Recorders.
(c) A photograph.
(d) Mr. Foe's next story.

3. What does Susan say Cruso would have done if he had been a true adventurer?
(a) Returned to civilization alive.
(b) Found a way off the island, if only by death.
(c) Planted a seed in the only fertile womb on the island.
(d) Experimented with cannibalism.

4. What do Susan and Friday grow in their garden?
(a) Cabbage and corn.
(b) Peas and potatoes.
(c) Weeds and wildflowers.
(d) Carrots and beans.

5. Who receives a letter "for your master" in Part Two?
(a) Friday.
(b) The young girl.
(c) Susan.
(d) The old man.

6. What does Susan do with the money she receives from Mr. Foe in the beginning of Part Two?
(a) Takes it to her grandfather.
(b) Buys clothes for Friday and pays rent.
(c) Buys food and shoes.
(d) Puts it in a chest, but refuses to use it.

7. What does Susan tell her young guest about that person's father?
(a) He can not speak.
(b) He is more spirit than human.
(c) He is a writer named Daniel Foe.
(d) He is a cruel man who has abandonded her.

8. What does Susan say that eating human flesh is bound to be like?
(a) Any other mindless ritual.
(b) Eating chicken.
(c) Any other human sin.
(d) Eating the meat at the pub.

9. What does Susan say might be a way to communicate with Friday?
(a) By gardening with him.
(b) Teaching him to read and write.
(c) Nature walks.
(d) Music.

10. How is Susan feeling when she starts to dance?
(a) Joyful.
(b) Furious.
(c) Wet and hungry.
(d) Ill.

11. What elements does Susan suggest adding to her story?
(a) Passion and sex.
(b) Pregnancy and how Friday lost his tongue.
(c) Another group of hostile cast-aways.
(d) Cannibals and corn seeds.

12. What does Susan say about mothers and children?
(a) They share an unbreakable bond.
(b) They burden each other for life.
(c) Children never seek lost parents.
(d) Mothers carry a sense of their offspring for life.

13. What is the first indication Susan receives, in April, that there is a problem with Mr. Foe?
(a) The bank refuses to cash his check.
(b) A messenger arrives at Susan's looking for him.
(c) He doesn't answer her letter.
(d) He writes a letter that alludes to difficulty.

14. What does Susan compare Friday to when she decides not to send him on the ship?
(a) A clinging vine.
(b) A stray dog.
(c) An unloved child.
(d) Herself, as a child.

15. What clue is given that Susan knew Mr. Foe before coming hiring him to write her story?
(a) The music box.
(b) She describes the house before arriving.
(c) She describes Mr. Foe's fondness for rose gardens prior to meeting him.
(d) The atlas in the study.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Susan dance?

2. Who does Susan believe sent the person who watches the house where Susan and Friday live?

3. Who claims to have been born in Deptford in May of 1702?

4. Where does Friday live in Part Two?

5. How do Susan and Friday live in their new location at the end of May in Part Two?

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