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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Rachel invite Nathaniel to in the section titled "In the Archives"?
(a) Her wedding.
(b) Her violin performance.
(c) Her child's christening.
(d) Her puppet theater peformance.

2. How does Marsh Felon feel about Rose?
(a) He loves her like a sister.
(b) He is sexually attracted to her.
(c) He does not like her, but he realizes she is talented.
(d) He is sworn to protect her through a promise he made to her father.

3. What is the name of the town in Suffolk where Nathaniel buys his house in the section titled "The Saints"?
(a) The Cotswolds.
(b) Blue Paint.
(c) White Paint.
(d) Sea Green.

4. What does Mr. Malakite do for a living?
(a) He is an accountant.
(b) He paints houses.
(c) He farms vegetables.
(d) He is a roofer.

5. What kinds of sandwiches does Mrs. Malakite make for Mr. Malakite and Nathaniel?
(a) Turkey and stuffing.
(b) Tomato, cheese, onion, and honey.
(c) Egg and tuna fish.
(d) Ham and lettuce.

6. What is a distinctive feature of Rose Williams' floor in White Paint?
(a) It has lasers built into it as a security feature.
(b) Its dye rubs off on skin and can not be removed.
(c) It gives barefoot people splinters.
(d) It squeaks suddenly and loudly when stepped on.

7. Who is really the biological father of The Darter's daughter?
(a) Nathaniel.
(b) The Moth.
(c) Marsh Felon.
(d) Arthur McCash.

8. What kind of floor is in Rose Williams' house in White Paint?
(a) A nightingale floor.
(b) A heated floor.
(c) A ceramic tile floor.
(d) A cedar floor.

9. What does Marsh Felon use as a means to demonstrate to Rose the importance of knowing how to extract oneself from somewhere?
(a) An underground cave.
(b) A groundhog burrow.
(c) An old wasp's nest.
(d) A natural whirlpool.

10. What does Rose's father call Marsh Felon due to rumors he has heard about him?
(a) The Professor.
(b) The Roof-top Bandit.
(c) The Madman.
(d) The Boulevardier.

11. What rank does Nathaniel's grandfather, his mother's father, eventually attain?
(a) Colonel.
(b) Captain.
(c) Lieutenant.
(d) Admiral.

12. Where do Rose and Marsh Felon have their only sexually intimate encounter?
(a) During the war in a small town in Italy.
(b) At Marsh's house near White Paint.
(c) In Ruvigny Gardens.
(d) In Rose's house in White Paint.

13. Who does Nathaniel have dinner with in the section titled "Arthur McCash," to ask questions about his childhood?
(a) Olive Lawrence.
(b) The Darter.
(c) Arthur McCash.
(d) The Moth.

14. What does Nathaniel say when he hears Mr. Malakite has died?
(a) A man of nature is a gentle man.
(b) Only in open fields.
(c) Once a farmer, always a farmer.
(d) He was a good man.

15. What poet does Marsh Felon read a work from during his BBC radio program that is a mediation on the destruction war wreaks on the natural world?
(a) Henry Longfellow.
(b) Robert Louis Stevenson.
(c) William Wordsworth.
(d) Thomas Hardy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of a state does the narrator Nathaniel say one must be in to write a memoir in the section titled "The Saints"?

2. Why does Nathaniel bang a pot upon entering his mother's house after she dies?

3. Who taught Nathaniel how to pick the locks of filing cabinets in his youth?

4. What is the only thing Rachel will say about Rose after the incident at the Bark Theater?

5. What does Nathaniel think The Darter's daughter's name is?

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