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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 is Baz's verse to defeat the creature attacking Watford in Chapter 44 based on?

2. What is one spell Penny casts to try to counter Simon's spell in Chapter 44?

3. What does Nicodemus learn about Ebb in Chapter 70?

4. What does Baz think Penny smells like?

5. In Chapter 51, why does Baz find the idea of marrying Agatha appealing?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Penny know her father is lying to her about in Chapter 59?

2. Why does Baz tell Simon not to kill the dragon but only to try to subdue it?

3. What does Simon do for the first time with Baz in Chapter 44 that astounds both of them, as well as everyone else at Watford?

4. Why does Baz tell Penny in Chapter 65 that the person who killed his mother could never have been someone in his family?

5. Why does Nicodemus refuse to tell Simon and Baz who Natasha Grimm-Pitch's killer is, even when threatened with death?

6. How does Baz get turned into a vampire?

7. In Chapter 67, why did Simon leave Penny and Agatha on the way back to London to go back to Baz's house?

8. How does Agatha react when Penny brings her to Baz's house in Chapter 65?

9. In Chapter 48, what do Simon and Baz do together that seems to represent a turning point in their relationship?

10. What does Penny's father, Professor Bunce, study?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay analyzing Rowell's decision to have Simon and Baz more openly express their love for each other and reveal their homosexual relationship to the world by the novel's end - whereas earlier in the book, both young men were reluctant to let anyone know about the true nature of their feelings for each other. Why do you think Rowell chose end the book this way?

Essay Topic 2

In Carry On, the reader understands whose Simon Snow's parents are and how his mother, Lucy, felt about him, but neither Simon nor any of the other main characters ever discover this information. Write an essay exploring why Rowell might have chosen to make the intriguing and somewhat unusual choice to reveal this important information to the reader but to keep it from the characters.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay exploring Rowell's use of humor in the book. What purpose(s) does humor serve in Carry On, and which characters and/or situations does Rowell most often use to achieve them?

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