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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 author does Rose Williams have a particular fondness for?
(a) Dickens.
(b) Austen.
(c) Balzac.
(d) Wordsworth.

2. What is one of the last things that Nathaniel says to his mother Rose before she dies?
(a) "What did you do during the war?"
(b) "We will not speak again."
(c) "This could be our last talk for a while."
(d) "I need answers."

3. How does Nathaniel finally track down The Darter?
(a) He looks through the archives' files on all their drivers and finds The Darter's picture there.
(b) He finds a business card with his phone number.
(c) He bribes someone at the government ministry.
(d) He finds The Darter's contact information hidden in his mother's desk.

4. What is the term for a village that suffered no casualties during the war?
(a) A Thankful Village.
(b) A Cursed Village.
(c) A Blessed Village.
(d) A Lucky Village.

5. 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) An old wasp's nest.
(c) A groundhog burrow.
(d) A natural whirlpool.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Rose choose to protect Nathaniel after she leaves the British Intelligence Service?

2. If Nathaniel had had the chance to ask his mother what she had done that was so terrible during the war, what does he imagine her answering?

3. What is Nathaniel's living situation in the section titled "In the Archives"?

4. Who does Nathaniel have dinner with in the section titled "Arthur McCash," to ask questions about his childhood?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Who does Nathaniel most wish to find a way to track down from what he discovers in the archives?

2. What does Nathaniel find in a desk in his mother's house after she dies that surprises him?

3. What does Marsh Felon teach Rose how to do in the section titled "Wildfowling"?

4. In the section titled "Arthur McCash," what one piece of information does Nathaniel finally uncover about what specific job Rose performed during the war?

5. Why is Nathaniel interested in the sea pea plant?

6. What is the real reason The Darter is so awkward with Nathaniel at their meeting in the book's final pages?

7. Why does Marsh Felon have to spend several weeks in Rose's family house as an adolescent?

8. What does Rose cite as a major reason why she joined the British Intelligence Service?

9. What kind of a relationship does Marsh Felon have with his own family as an adult?

10. How do Rachel's feelings towards Rose, her mother, change after the incident in the Bark Theater?

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