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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. Which character arrives where Alobar is while dressed as a boy?
(a) Frol.
(b) Kudra.
(c) Alma.
(d) Wren.

2. What year is it in the beginning of Part III?
(a) 1822.
(b) 1548.
(c) 1900.
(d) 1666.

3. What does Pan drag back to the incense shop following the funeral of Descartes?
(a) A rose.
(b) A perfume bottle.
(c) A coat.
(d) A wig.

4. What is the name of the prostitute that Alobar negotiates with?
(a) Pan.
(b) Kudra.
(c) Frol.
(d) Lalo.

5. Where did Priscilla's father live?
(a) New Hampshire.
(b) Arizona.
(c) Mexico.
(d) Argentina.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the giant beet the author mentions?

2. What does Alobar name the perfume he and Pan create?

3. What do the workers pressure "the boy" to do for fun?

4. What does the narrator write would be cast as Macbeth or Hamlet?

5. What is the most effective scent Kudra can find to cover Pan's odor?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is Kudra's reply to Alobar when he says she fled death? Where did she plan to go?

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

4. Describe the suttee that Alobar witnesses in India.

5. How old was Priscilla when she was married and what were the circumstances surrounding her marriage?

6. In Part III, what is one of the causes of Alobar and Kudra's current squabbles?

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

8. What is the most effective scent Kudra can find to cover Pan's odor? What does she decide to do with it?

9. At the beginning of Part II, where and with whom do readers find Priscilla? What is she in need of?

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

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