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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Walser try to gain his composure?
(a) He goes to the bathroom
(b) He stretches
(c) He walks outside
(d) He takes deep breaths

2. What color is Fevvers body and wings powdered?
(a) White
(b) Gold
(c) Pink
(d) Blue

3. What part of London do Lizzie and Fevvers move to?
(a) Camden
(b) Hampstead Heath
(c) Balham
(d) Battersea

4. Who is the leader of the clowns?
(a) Lizzie
(b) Walser
(c) Kearney
(d) Buffo the Great

5. What kind of weapon do the women give Fevvers when she becomes mascot?
(a) A bow and arrow
(b) A sword
(c) An axe
(d) A spear

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Fevvers' favourite play?

2. What season is it in Russia?

3. Why are the tigers on edge in this chapter?

4. What is Mignon's native tongue?

5. How does Fevvers claim she was born?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Colonel Kearney and his pig Sybil.

2. How does Schreck try to dupe Fevers out of her fair share?

3. In what way do you think Walser's decision to sign up for the circus was an important one to make?

4. What imagery does Carter use to describe the ice cream shop?

5. What is the real reason Walser has come to interview Fevvers?

6. What does Walser see in Fevvers dressing room?

7. How does Fevvers escape from Rosencreutz?

8. Describe the brothel where Fevvers first sets up home.

9. In what way has greed been an important theme in this novel so far?

10. How does darkness play an important part in book 1, chapter 4?

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