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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. During which year do Alobar and Kudra come the closest to separating?
(a) 1988.
(b) 1402.
(c) 1644.
(d) 1725.

2. What does the narrator write would be cast as Macbeth or Hamlet?
(a) A monster.
(b) Pan.
(c) A tomato.
(d) A beet.

3. Among fowl, which does the author claim would wear a jester's hat?
(a) The duck.
(b) The chicken.
(c) The goose.
(d) The ostrich.

4. Who goes to Stockholm to tutor the queen?
(a) Hugo.
(b) Descartes.
(c) Van Gogh.
(d) Matisse.

5. How many years pass since we last see Alobar?
(a) Six years.
(b) Twenty years.
(c) Ten years.
(d) Thirty years.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Alobar witness the funeral pyre?

2. Where does Alobar find a place for Kudra to sleep after he first sees her in the mountains?

3. Where did Alobar get a job working in a spice caravan and hence travel to?

4. How does Kudra's husband die?

5. What does Alobar nickname Kudra many years ago?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the first troubles that accompany Alobar and Kudra's immortality?

2. Who does Alobar meet while fleeing from the suttee? What does this character have with her?

3. In Part III, what does the author note about Descartes?

4. What is Kudra's response to her arranged marriage? What does her father tell her?

5. Describe the suttee that Alobar witnesses in India.

6. What is Kudra skilled at? How did she learn this skill?

7. What would have been the restrictions on Kudra as a widow? How does she escape this fate?

8. In Part II, what arrives for Priscilla at work?

9. In Part II, what does Priscilla do after receiving her package and leaving work?

10. What vision does Alobar experience when he and Kudra try to dematerialize?

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