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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 does Matthew greet as he escorts Diana to her first meeting with Mary Sidney?

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

3. Where does Diana first meet with Annie’s aunt?

4. In which of the following languages does Philippe quiz Diana?

5. Which of the following texts in translation does Mary Sidney send to Diana to indicate a desire for friendship?

Short Essay Questions

1. What explanation does Diana receive for her displacement of half a month?

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

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

4. What does Diana note regarding Elizabethan journal-keeping?

5. What does Diana experience upon tasting stag’s blood at Sept-Tours?

6. Why, per Goody Alsop, are there so few weavers?

7. What does Matthew use as file storage in his lodgings in Blackfriars?

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

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

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

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

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?

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