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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. In which of the following languages does Philippe quiz Diana?
(a) Lithuanian.
(b) Avestan.
(c) Gothic.
(d) Latin.

2. By what name does Henry Percy, Lord Northumberland, note he is commonly addressed (19)?
(a) Harry.
(b) Hal.
(c) Hank.
(d) Earl.

3. 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 some criminal in the past.
(b) That they would be burned at the stake in the past.
(c) That they would be enchanted by the odor of the past.
(d) That they would be knocked out by the odor of the past.

4. In which of the following forms does Matthew write his correspondences (32)?
(a) Insular.
(b) Chancery.
(c) Italic.
(d) Secretary.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is a kitchen boy at Sept-Tours whose services Diana requisitions?

2. Which of the following English-speaking vampires is the first to speak to Diana at Sept-Tours?

3. Which of the following does Diana place in the pages of her commonplace book before setting out for Sept-Tours?

4. In which of the following forms does Diana write in her commonplace book (32)?

5. The comment that “It looks like a demented hedgehog” (207) offers an example of which of the following?

Short Essay Questions

1. What bargain does Matthew strike with Elizabeth before departing for Prague?

2. What reason does Diana consider, after suffering a miscarriage, for inability to conceive?

3. What does Diana note regarding Elizabethan journal-keeping?

4. To what James Bond does George compare Matthew, and to which had Diana compared him?

5. How does Diana’s power manifest while she is in her first meeting with Mary Sidney?

6. What in Baynard’s Castle indicates its aristocratic use when Diana first enters it?

7. What kind of crowd do Diana and her companions encounter at St. Paul’s as she makes her way to her first meeting with Mary Sidney?

8. What wedding gifts does Philippe give Diana?

9. Why does Diana leave her commonplace book at the Old Lodge instead of taking it to Sept-Tours?

10. In what does Diana see Matthew’s assumption of a princely demeanor after they make landfall on the Continent en route to Sept-Tours?

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