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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 color is the glass bottle that Pan brings to the incense shop?

2. During which year do Alobar and Kudra come the closest to separating?

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

4. People like Alobar and Kudra learn how to put their own electrical pulses on a frequency consistent with what?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What vision does Kudra see in the crystal ball? What does this prompt her and Alobar to do?

2. Where do Alobar and Kudra travel after leaving Constantinople? What do they find there?

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

4. Why did Madame Devalier go to Paris? In Part II, what information is revealed to V'lu about this trip?

5. In Part III, who is the prostitute Alobar encounters? What does she tell him?

6. In Part III, what is the year and what event does Pan attend?

7. When and where do Alobar and Kudra meet the gypsies? What object does Alobar catch them looking for?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare Jitterbug Perfume to Homer's The Odyssey. Which characters are reflective of the earlier epic? What stylistic elements are similar between the two texts?

Essay Topic 2

Describe the travels of Alobar in Jitterbug Perfume. How old is this character at the end of the novel? Has he grown as a spiritual being throughout his journey? If so, how?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the character of Kudra in Jitterbug Perfume. What is her connection with Alobar? What themes are tied to this character? Where does she travel?

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