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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 does Door do to distract Jessica?

2. What is the name of Jessica's assistant?

3. Why does the girl who takes Richard to the market say he can never return to the other world?

4. Why does Door say she refuses to answer Richard's questions?

5. How does Door describe her first sight of Jessica?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do Croup and Vandemar tell Varney to do?

2. What does the woman outside the pub say to Richard at the beginning of the book?

3. What does Door tell Richard she is looking for after going back to the marketplace for him?

4. What happens when Richard and Anesthesia cross the Night's Bridge to get to the market?

5. What do Croup and Vandemar do while Richard and Door are with Islington?

6. What does Mr. Stockton unveil, and why is this so significant?

7. How did Varney lose the bodyguard job?

8. How does the marquis help the man he gave a song to?

9. What happens when Richard sees Jessica for the first time after Door leaves?

10. What worries Hunter so much when Door starts to go Above?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

There were some very sad and symbolic deaths in this book. What are some of these deaths, what did they symbolize, and how did they shape the course of this plot?

Essay Topic 2

How is Richard changed after his first experience with Door, and how do these changes alter the course of his life?

Essay Topic 3

Why did marquis allow himself to be killed, and how did this sacrifice alter the course of the plot?

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