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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Titania tell the doctor the sole purpose of a boy should be?

2. What does Titania appear to be wearing because of the glamour filter?

3. How long had Oberon and Titania been quarreling at the time he brought her the boy?

4. What do they call the boy's special blanket?

5. Who is Oberon?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Beastie? Describe Beastie physically.

2. How does Titania feel about the appearance of the hospital and its staff? What does she say to Alice about this?

3. Who are Titania and Oberon? Why are they in the hospital?

4. Who is Alice? What does Titania complain to Alice about regarding the hospital?

5. Describe the first morning the baby boy is with Titania. How do her feelings about him change?

6. How do Alice and the doctors see Titania and Oberon through the glamour filter?

7. How does Alice respond when Titania and Oberon begin to argue about the fact that Titania does not want to go in her son's room to see him after his procedure?

8. What is Titania's reason for not being in her son's room after he wakes from his procedure? What does Oberon think of this excuse?

9. Why did Oberon bring the boy to Titania in the first place? How did she feel about this gift at first?

10. Describe Titania during their first conversation with Dr. Blork and Dr. Beadle. Describe Oberon.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the theme of grief and discuss how Titania and Oberon manage their grief in "A Tiny Feast."

Essay Topic 2

Titania and Oberon, despite being magic, immortal faeries, cannot save their son. Write an essay exploring these character's feelings of helplessness in "A Tiny Feast."

Essay Topic 3

The main characters of "A Tiny Feast" are named after characters in William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. Research the story and characters and write a brief essay about why you think Adrian chose these names for this story.

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