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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. The term “aqua fortis” refers to which of the following?

2. The comment that “The idea of George Chapman playing Henry Higgins to my Eliza Doolittle” (29) is an example of which of the following?

3. In the novel, the term “manjasang” carries which of the following meanings?

4. Per Goody Alsop, how many witches are in the Rede?

5. What kind of being is Chapman in the novel?

Short Essay Questions

1. What wedding gifts does Philippe give Diana?

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

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

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

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

6. What significance attaches itself to Matthew’s clean-shaven appearance in 1590?

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

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

9. Following her forspell, as Diana consults with the London witches regarding how to control her firedrake familiar, what does she realize about the commonalities between her magical and historical practices?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

Consider the argument between Diana and Matthew at the beginning of the sixteenth chapter. Which of their positions does the text support as being correct? How does it do so?

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