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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 The Moth suggest Nathaniel do during school holidays at the end of the section titled "Hell-Fire"?
(a) Start learning how to cook.
(b) Get a job to earn a little money.
(c) Learn how to shoot a gun.
(d) Work abroad in America for a while.

2. What happens to Nathaniel and Agnes on the city bus at the end of the section titled "Agnes Street"?
(a) They are followed by several men.
(b) They are arrested.
(c) They are harassed by school children.
(d) They are robbed.

3. What wisdom does Olive Lawrence murmur to Nathaniel that comes back to him as an adult?
(a) We need other people to fill in what we can not remember ourselves.
(b) The past is a foreign country.
(c) Forgive your parents their sins, for you do not know what they have suffered.
(d) The self is not the principal thing.

4. How does The Darter feel about Agnes?
(a) He thinks she and Nathaniel are a terrible match.
(b) He loves her.
(c) He does not like her.
(d) He does not trust her.

5. What street in London does Nathaniel live on as a child?
(a) Ruvigny Gardens.
(b) Chatham Cross.
(c) Charring Cross.
(d) Paddington Road.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who visits Nathniel's house and tells stories of using a smoker normally used for calming bees in innovative ways?

2. Where does Rachel go immediately after the attack at the Bark Theater?

3. Where does Nathaniel start his first paying job?

4. Who does Nathaniel think he catches a glimpse of at the dance club in Bromley?

5. What does Agnes tell Nathaniel she lies awake at night and wishes for?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where does Arthur McCash find Rachel and who is she with when he looks for her in the Bark Theater?

2. How does Nathaniel describe Olive Lawrence's personality?

3. Why is Rachel so upset at the end of Part I of the book, as she and Nathaniel are whisked away from the Bark Theater?

4. What does Arthur McCash tell Nathaniel that startles him when McCash surprises Nathaniel at Victoria Station?

5. How does The Moth react when Nathaniel and Rachel turn up unexpectedly at the house in London when they should be at school?

6. Who helps Nathaniel and Rachel during Rachel's first episode with epilepsy, and what does that person do?

7. How does Nathaniel first meet the girl he comes to know as Agnes?

8. What does Nathaniel tell Agnes to try to conceal the truth of his family situation?

9. Just before Nathaniel's mother departs for Singapore, what does she start telling the children for the first time?

10. What does Nathaniel especially remember about his visit to his father's Unilever office?

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