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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 do the guests at the tea party use as balls for a game of croquet?

2. Who announces Catherine's and her parents' arrival at the ball?

3. Who leaves Hatta's shop first to create a distraction for the Jabberwock?

4. What do Catherine and Mary Ann find as they are leaving Peter Peter's pumpkin patch?

5. What is Peter Peter doing when Catherine and Mary Ann arrive at the pumpkin patch?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Jest decline to tell Catherine where Hatta and Haigha are from?

2. Why do white roses grow in Catherine's room on the night of the King's ball?

3. Why does the sight of Raven's shadow sometimes frighten Catherine?

4. Why is it strange that Cheshire has not heard anything about the new Joker prior to the ball?

5. After the King asks permission to court Catherine, how does Catherine know that Jest is waiting outside her window?

6. Why does Jest steal Jack's hat?

7. Why is Mary Ann frightened when she comes into Catherine's room on the night of Hatta's tea party?

8. Why does the King decide to court Catherine instead of immediately proposing?

9. Why is Catherine baking lemon tarts at the beginning of the book?

10. What irritates Catherine about Margaret Mearle?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay discussing Jest as a romantic hero archetype. Define the archetype and explain how Jest fits that role.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay examining the theme of love and loss. What conclusion does the author seem to come to about the question of whether it is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all?

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay exploring the theme of loyalty and how the loyalties of the characters influences the decisions they make and, therefore, the outcome of the novel.

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