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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. How old is Annie when she first reports to Diana?

2. In which classical element is Marjorie Cooper gifted?

3. On which day do Diana and Matthew take up lodgings in London after returning thence from Sept-Tours?

4. In the novel, the term “masca” carries which of the following meanings?

5. Which of the following does Diana encounter while on her way to John Hester’s shop?

Short Essay Questions

1. What distinction between marriage and mating among vampires does Diana note?

2. In the novel, what is the covenant, and who upholds it?

3. Upon learning of her pregnancy, what does Matthew assert to Diana a child needs (215)?

4. What reasoning does Philippe give for using gold as a symbol of vampires?

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

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

7. How does Matthew report that Philippe will die, and when?

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

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

10. What reasons does Gallowglass give for refusing to enter France?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What attitude toward history—not as an academic subject, but as a record of what has been done and by whom—can be inferred from the novel? What in the text supports the inference? How does it do so?

Essay Topic 2

What narrative purpose does Philippe’s relation of the tale of Peleus and Thetis at Matthew and Diana’s nuptials (172-73) serve? What in the text indicates that it serves that function? How does it do so?

Essay Topic 3

Philippe comments that what Matthew “possesses is belief, which is quite different [from faith] and depends on the head rather than the heart” (136). Is the comment about the relationship between belief and faith accurate within the context of the novel? What in the text indicates that it is or is not? How does it do so?

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