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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. Which of the following signs do the Fields sport on their stationery shop?
2. Per Goody Alsop, how many witches are in the Rede?
3. The comment that “The School of Night appeared at the windows, their pale faces pressing against the glass like stars in a nameless constellation” (57) offers an example of which of the following?
4. In which of the following locations do Diana and Matthew appear in 1590?
5. How old is Annie when she first reports to Diana?
Short Essay Questions
1. What kind of crowd do Diana and her companions encounter at St. Paul’s as she makes her way to her first meeting with Mary Sidney?
2. 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?
3. How does Matthew report that Philippe will die, and when?
4. How does Diana’s power manifest while she is in her first meeting with Mary Sidney?
5. What explanation does Matthew give Diana for the abundance of witches, vampires, and daemons in Barbican Cross?
6. Why, per Goody Alsop, are there so few weavers?
7. What explanation does Diana receive for her displacement of half a month?
8. What advice does Lord Burghley give to Diana when he first meets her?
9. What does Diana identify as among Matthew’s “tells” to Alain and Pierre?
10. What reasoning does Philippe give for using gold as a symbol of vampires?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Throughout the text, it is emphasized that Diana will not eat venison, although she tastes stag’s blood and eats other meats. Within the novel, what significance attaches itself to the abstention? How does it do so?
Essay Topic 2
There is an early comment in the text that “Matthew’s scientific tests had revealed genetic markers for the magical potential in [Diana’s] blood” (7). What effect does the comment have upon the passage in which it is found? Upon the novel as a whole? What in the text leads to that conclusion? How does it do so?
Essay Topic 3
Explicate the symbolism of Matthew being known as Gabriel among the Jewish community in Prague.
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