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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 difference between himself and Maud makes Roland feel as if he is in a romance novel?

2. What covers the garden's lawn?

3. What does Roland discover happened to his landlady?

4. Who is the medium training in Mummy Possest?

5. Who does Christabel express that she wants to have her letters?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where has Euan located Cropper and Hildebrand?

2. What offer does Blackadder make to Roland?

3. What similarities are there between Christabel and Ash's trip and Roland and Maud's trip?

4. Describe Cropper's lectures.

5. How does the medium in the poem introduce her practices to the apprentice?

6. What does Roland start to do at the end of Chapter 26?

7. How do Roland and Maud feel about each other?

8. How does the subject of Christabel and Ash's letters come up at the race track?

9. How do Maud and Roland react to Euan's phone call?

10. How does Blackadder feel about his work?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the idea of possession in the novel.

1) What types of things do people try to possess? How do people possess knowledge and the past?

2) How do people possess each other in the novel?

3) How do people lose themselves to possessions in the novel?

Essay Topic 2

In many ways, the novel is a mystery. Discuss the aspects of mystery in the novel.

1) How do the characters gather clues in order to unravel the story? How is this similar to a traditional detective story, and how is it different?

2) What mysteries do the characters resolve in the course of the story? What remains a mystery? Why are parts of the mystery left unsolved?

3) How is literature a kind of puzzle in the novel?

Essay Topic 3

In the novel, the characters are scholars who study two Victorian poets. Discuss the importance of poetry in the novel.

1) Why does Roland decide to write poems, and find a poetic voice, at the end of the novel? How is writing poetry different than studying and analyzing it?

2) What do poets accomplish with their poems in the novel? Who are the poems written for?

3) What causes poetry to persist over time in the novel? Why do the characters study poetry that is written far in the past?

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