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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 dances do Diana and Matthew dance at the Royal Exchange?
(a) The Macarena.
(b) The Black Nag.
(c) The Cupid Shuffle.
(d) The Charleston.

2. To which of the following is the term “Maharal” applied in the novel?
(a) Maimonides.
(b) Judah Loew.
(c) Nachmanides.
(d) Moses Isserles.

3. Which of the following treatments is sent to Diana after she feigns illness to meet the Maharal?
(a) Nagamani.
(b) Batrachites.
(c) Fecaliths.
(d) Bezoars.

4. Which of the following is the name of the golem in the novel?
(a) Abraham.
(b) Ishmael.
(c) Yosef.
(d) Isaac.

5. Diana glosses the term “nachzehrer” as which of the following?
(a) Nothing of the kind.
(b) Non-zoomer.
(c) Devourer of the dead.
(d) Night runner.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following houses do the Kelleys maintain in Prague?

2. Which of the following does Diana encounter in the tiltyard at Greenwich?

3. How long does Diana and Matthew’s journey from London to Prague take?

4. On what day do events in Prague begin to be depicted in the novel?

5. In which of the following years does Matthew note receiving the salamander necklace he gives to Diana?

Short Essay Questions

1. What route does Matthew propose to get himself and Diana to Sept-Tours once they return to their present, and why?

2. How do Matthew and Elizabeth plan to address the matter of Ashmole 782 with Rudolf’s ambassador?

3. What does Diana note about the *outside* of the Bosch triptych Matthew receives in Prague?

4. What errors in her father’s period clothing does Diana note when she first encounters him in Elizabethan England?

5. How, per Hubbard, does James of Scotland manage to reverse a jury’s decision?

6. What does Diana note about the *inside* of the Bosch triptych Matthew receives in Prague?

7. What does Diana note in Bedlam is Matthew’s greatest fear?

8. How does Knox kill Skovajsa?

9. What does Gallowglass note smelling in Ashmole 782?

10. What titles does Matthew note Rudolf holds?

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