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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. Where does Alobar go to find Pan?

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

3. What does Kudra's father use beets for?

4. How many years pass since we last see Alobar?

5. What is the business of Kudra's husband?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the first troubles that accompany Alobar and Kudra's immortality?

2. What is Kudra skilled at? How did she learn this skill?

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

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

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

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

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

8. Describe the suttee that Alobar witnesses in India.

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the theme of "Self Reliance and Independent Thought" in Jitterbug Perfume. Where is this theme illuminated? Which characters represent this theme?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the four simultaneous plot lines in Jitterbug Perfume. How do these separate plots converge in the novel? What themes are revealed throughout each?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the four principles for immortality as established in the novel by Kudra and Alobar. What are these based upon?

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