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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 Diana have in her purse when she meets with Elizabeth following her return from Prague?
2. The comment that “Kelley cannot be plucked from the emperor’s court like a stray weed, no matter how many roses grow there” (483) offers an example of which of the following?
3. As which of the following does Diana gloss “Omni fine initium novum” (572)?
4. From which of the following languages does the novel report the term “Schadiw” derives?
5. On which level of Diana and Matthew’s house in Prague do the vampires in their household sleep?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Diana describe the illustration on the intact first page of Ashmole 782?
2. What does Marlowe propose to do to Diana in the tiltyard at Greenwich?
3. What route does Matthew propose to get himself and Diana to Sept-Tours once they return to their present, and why?
4. What errors in her father’s period clothing does Diana note when she first encounters him in Elizabethan England?
5. What is Lobero?
6. How, per Hubbard, does James of Scotland manage to reverse a jury’s decision?
7. What is the compendium Diana receives from Habermel?
8. What reasons does Matthew give to Elizabeth for leaving Kelley in Prague?
9. How does Knox kill Skovajsa?
10. What does Diana note about the *inside* of the Bosch triptych Matthew receives in Prague?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Consider the following:
“The child won’t live out the week unless an adult takes responsibility for him. What is that you said? Love, a grown-up to care for them, and a soft place to land?”
“Don’t turn my words against me, Diana. That was about our child, not some homeless waif. “Mathew, who had met more witches in the past few days than most vampires did in a lifetime, was spoiling for a fight.
“I was a homeless waif once.”
My husband drew back as if I’d slapped him. (306)
What attitudes are indicated in the passage? How are they indicated?
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
Many sources attest to the presence of Shadow of Night on the New York Times best-seller list. Assuming that sales figures reflect popularity, what accounts for the popularity of the novel? How does it do so?
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