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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. What is the name of the witch who investigates Diana at Sept-Tours?

2. In which classical element is Susanna Norman gifted?

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

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What explanation does Matthew give Diana for the abundance of witches, vampires, and daemons in Barbican Cross?

2. What advice does Lord Burghley give to Diana when he first meets her?

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

4. What reasons does Diana note for asserting that “Walter’s was the only opinion that mattered” (24)?

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

6. What does Diana identify as among Matthew’s “tells” to Alain and Pierre?

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

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

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

10. What wedding gifts does Philippe give Diana?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is to be made of the persistent associations made between Philippe and Classical myth, ranging from Diana’s comment likening him to “a Greek god” to Philippe’s recounting the story of Peleus and Thetis and his Hellenistic observances? What in the text supports that assertion? How does it do so?

Essay Topic 2

The comment is made at multiple points in the novel that monsters often look like ordinary people. Does the novel as a whole bear out the comment? What in the text indicates that it does or does not? How does it do so?

Essay Topic 3

Marlowe remarks that “Matthew cannot keep playing Odysseus to [Diana’s] Circe” (23). Explicate the analogy; that is, explain why Matthew takes the place of Odysseus relative to Diana, the witch, being likened to Circe.

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