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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What instrument does Philippe play for Diana and Matthew?
(a) Lyre.
(b) Sitar.
(c) Kithara.
(d) Oud.

2. Where does Diana first meet with Annie’s aunt?
(a) Garlic Hill.
(b) Onion Plain.
(c) Leek Knoll.
(d) Shallot Glen.

3. Which of the following is the first day of the week Diana records in her commonplace book?
(a) Tuesday.
(b) Saturday.
(c) Monday.
(d) Sunday.

4. Which of the following does Matthew greet as he escorts Diana to her first meeting with Mary Sidney?
(a) Nicholas Hilliard.
(b) Hans Holbein.
(c) John Browne.
(d) Thomas Tallis.

5. Which of the following does Diana propose to stop telling her students as she first goes to visit Mary Sidney (224)?
(a) That they would be knocked out by the odor of the past.
(b) That they would be enchanted by the odor of the past.
(c) That they would be knocked out by some criminal in the past.
(d) That they would be burned at the stake in the past.

6. Which of the following is the first date Diana records in her commonplace book?
(a) 2 November.
(b) 1 November.
(c) 30 October.
(d) 31 October.

7. What euphemism does Marlowe note is the preferred term for Elizabethan spies?
(a) Canny-person.
(b) Intelligencer.
(c) Espionagier.
(d) Curiosity.

8. What is the name of the witch who investigates Diana at Sept-Tours?
(a) Gilles de Rais.
(b) Charles Perrault.
(c) André Champier.
(d) Nicolas Flamel.

9. With which of the following does Matthew present Diana as a holiday gift in London?
(a) Spenser’s Faerie Queene.
(b) Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales.
(c) Malory’s Le Morte d’Arthur.
(d) Sidney’s Arcadia.

10. Which of the following names does Philippe take for himself?
(a) Alcides.
(b) Anaxes.
(c) Achilles.
(d) Atreus.

11. Which of the following professions does Annie ascribe to her aunt?
(a) Alewife.
(b) Housewife.
(c) Farmwife.
(d) Midwife.

12. Which of the following smells does Diana note as the first goes to visit Mary Sidney (224)?
(a) Roasting meat.
(b) Baking bread.
(c) Grilled mushrooms.
(d) Grilled mushrooms.

13. Which of the following smells does Diana note as the first goes to visit Mary Sidney (224)?
(a) Mastication.
(b) Defenestration.
(c) Fermentation.
(d) Interpolation.

14. In the novel, the term “warmbloods” refers to which of the following?
(a) Witches.
(b) Vampires.
(c) Humans.
(d) Daemons.

15. Which of the following is the first word Diana remarks hearing Philippe say?
(a) Yolo.
(b) Nolite.
(c) Introite.
(d) Sedete.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the novel, the term “pattens” refers to which of the following?

2. Matthew threatens to remove which of the following from Jack when he first meets the boy?

3. Which of the following titles does Thomas achieve at Saturnalia?

4. In which classical element is Susanna Norman gifted?

5. What kind of being is Harriot in the novel?

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