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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What best describe the dwelling where Susan lives in Part Two?
(a) An inn.
(b) A rented cottage.
(c) A second story apartment.
(d) Her grandfather's house.

4. How does Friday respond to live in the city, at the beginning of Part Two?
(a) He is fascinated by it.
(b) He is agitated and scared.
(c) He is not happy.
(d) He shows no change at all.

5. Susan tells Friday that he alone knows that their lives on the island where what?
(a) Enough.
(b) Transformational.
(c) Spirit killing.
(d) Dull.

6. Who is George Lewes?
(a) An attorney.
(b) Mr. Foe's brother.
(c) The man young Susan says is her father.
(d) The young constable.

7. Where do Susan and Friday move to at the end of May in Part Two?
(a) The King's Arms.
(b) Mr. Foe's house.
(c) A ground floor apartment with a spare room.
(d) Mr. Lewes' house.

8. What does Susan lament in the telling of her story?
(a) That she can't claim a child conceived on the island.
(b) That she never learned how to write.
(c) That Cruso isn't alive to help her tell it.
(d) That she doesn't know how Friday lost his tongue.

9. How does Susan attempt to get passage to Africa for Friday?
(a) By telling the captain he is loyal and strong.
(b) She asks her dance partner.
(c) By getting him a job as a deckhand.
(d) With the money from Mr. Foe.

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

11. Who does Susan say is father-born?
(a) Young Susan.
(b) Herself.
(c) Cruso.
(d) George Lewes.

12. What does Susan say the terraces on the island come to resemble with the passage of time?
(a) Tombs.
(b) Birth and death.
(c) Monuments.
(d) Folly.

13. What does Susan compare to moving the stones on the island?
(a) Talking to young Susan.
(b) Shopping for a hat.
(c) Writing.
(d) Talking to Friday.

14. Who does Susan find when she goes to Mr. Foe's home on May 1st?
(a) Mr. Foe and Mr. Lewes.
(b) Baliff's.
(c) The captain of the Hobart.
(d) Her grandfather.

15. What is The King's Arms?
(a) A shop that sells trinkets.
(b) Mr. Foe's home.
(c) An inn and pub.
(d) Mr. Foe's first book.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Susan say Cruso would have done if he had been a true adventurer?

2. What does Susan think is one of the questions that readers will wonder about her story?

3. How does Susan feel about allowing the watcher to stay with her in Part Two?

4. How is Susan feeling when she starts to dance?

5. Why does Susan say she is eager for Mr. Foe to complete her project in May of Part Two?

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