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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 is the name of Lucrezia's mother?

2. What is the name of Bianca's family estate?

3. What was Ranuccio unable to go through with in the past?

4. What is drawn in the external walls of the family home in "Don't Leave, Don't Follow"?

5. Where is Vicente being held prisoner in Part Two?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Lucrezia have Ranuccio do in Part 2?

2. What does Vicente write in a letter to Bianca in Part 2?

3. Why is Vicente thrown in the sea in Part 2?

4. What happens when Lucrezia leaves the room to attend to the gooseboy in Part 2?

5. Describe the setting of the novel "Mirror, Mirror"?

6. What does Lucrezia ask the mirror in Part 2?

7. What happens when Bianca tries to run away in Part 2?

8. What does the reader learn about the dwarves in Part 2?

9. Who is Maria Ines?

10. Who is the Duc de Valentinois?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the setting of the novel. In what way is the setting an important aspect of this story? How do the different settings in the novel contrast with one another?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the motif of family in the novel "Mirror, Mirror". Describe Bianca's family and Lucrezia's family. Is family important to them?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the historical context of the novel "Mirror, Mirror". How does Maguire incorporate the real historical figures and the Renaissance into the novel?

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