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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. Which of the following is among the differences from twenty-first century Sept-Tours Diana notes in sixteenth-century Sept-Tours?
(a) The walls are terra-cotta instead of stone.
(b) Corridors have replaced open rooms.
(c) The table is set with silver instead of strewn with paperwork.
(d) Simple, heavy furniture is in place instead of lavish, light furniture.

2. Which of the following is the name of one of Matthew’s mastiffs at Woodstock?
(a) Thucydides.
(b) Themistocles.
(c) Cimon.
(d) Pericles.

3. The term “magpie-ing” offers an example of which of the following?
(a) Euphemism.
(b) Metaphor.
(c) Conceit.
(d) Oxymoron.

4. In which classical element is Elizabeth Jackson gifted?
(a) Earth.
(b) Fire.
(c) Water.
(d) Air.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following smells does Diana note as the first goes to visit Mary Sidney (224)?

2. Which of the following is the first thing Diana writes in her commonplace book (32)?

3. The comment that “No longer a solitary meteor moving through space and time, I was now part of a complicated planetary system” (217) offers an example of which of the following?

4. Which of the following runes does Gallowglass consult?

5. Of which of the following is Susanna Norman’s ritual broom made?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What reasons are given for the strange courtesies of Dr. Dee’s household?

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

4. Why, per Goody Alsop, are there so few weavers?

5. What reasons does Diana note for “the most important rule” the Congregation enforces: “No fraternizing between otherworldly species” (27)?

6. In what ways does Diana liken Marlowe to a troublesome child (31)?

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

8. Where is it remarked that scholars search for English commonplace books?

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

10. What explanation does Matthew give Diana for the dearth of witches, vampires, and daemons in Blackfriars?

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