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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 is the name of one of Matthew’s mastiffs at Woodstock?

2. To which inn does Susanna Norman direct Matthew when she first meets with Diana?

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

4. What gift do Diana and Matthew receive from Mary Sidney and Henry Percy for New Year’s?

5. In the novel, the term “warmbloods” refers to which of the following?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. 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?

4. What bargain does Matthew strike with Elizabeth before departing for Prague?

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

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

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

8. What features does Diana note as typical of Elizabethan English writing?

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

10. How does Diana note expecting Dr. Dee’s library to look?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Diana muses on the difficulties of handwriting, noting that she had worked long to be able to read letters she had trouble writing (32). What does the musing say about the relationship between study and experience? How does it do so?

Essay Topic 2

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 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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