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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 image represents Professor Milo at the end of the novel?
(a) A brief case.
(b) A book.
(c) A bloody scalpel.
(d) A pair of glasses.

2. What does the scene quoted from a popular children's book represent?
(a) Riding a raft.
(b) A poisoned apple.
(c) A tangled web.
(d) Return to reality.

3. What power does the man inside the room with Greek inscription offer to the hero?
(a) Speed.
(b) Wisdom.
(c) Electricity.
(d) Sanity.

4. Who offers the patients freedom to leave at the end of the graphic novel?
(a) Ruth.
(b) The Joker.
(c) Batman.
(d) Cavendish.

5. Who does Amadeus see when he rips the covering off his mirror?
(a) Himself, his wife, and daughter.
(b) Himself and his mother.
(c) Himself.
(d) Himself, his wife, daughter, mother and father.

Short Answer Questions

1. What symbol represents the Joker at the end of the novel?

2. What does Arkham carve into the floor?

3. Whom does Amadeus electrocute?

4. What does Amadeus hear under his mother's bed?

5. To which country does the man inside the room with Greek inscription want to bring paradise?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why doesn't the hero simply leave once Cavendish has been killed? What does he do instead?

2. How does a memory from decades earlier described in Arkham's journal relate to the hero?

3. Where does the blood trail lead and what does the hero realize at the end of it?

4. Explain what happens when the villain decides whether the hero lives or dies?

5. Describe Doctor Destiny's appearance and what made him a dangerous villain. How does the hero defeat him?

6. Briefly discuss Amadeus' death.

7. How does the Mad Hatter explain "disorder"? What does he warn the hero about the asylum?

8. What idea does the hero contrive to allow the inmates to decide whether he lives or dies?

9. How does Arkham use therapy as revenge? What is the public perception of the revenge?

10. Why does Arkham write his journal? What does the location where he stores it say about him?

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