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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 job is the "boy" given?

2. Where do Alobar and Kudra meet the gypsies?

3. Before finding Alobar, Kudra plans on going where?

4. What position is Ricki promoted to in Part II?

5. Alobar and Kudra are students and practitioners of what?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What would have been the restrictions on Kudra as a widow? How does she escape this fate?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the role of Albert Einstein in Jitterbug Perfume. Who knows him? What are his last words? What is his thematic significance in the novel?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss foreshadowing in Jitterbug Perfume. What are some examples from the text of this literary device? Define the term in your answer.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the author's use of symbolism and motif in Jitterbug Perfume. What are some of the more prominent motifs? What do they represent?

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