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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. On which level of Diana and Matthew’s house in Prague do the vampires in their household sleep?

2. To which of the following does Hubbard assign Annie after Marlowe’s death?

3. In what year does Diana encounter her father in Elizabethan England?

4. Which of the following does the author note is historically attested?

5. At which of the following locations do Diana and Matthew arrive back in their own time?

Short Essay Questions

1. How, per Hubbard, does James of Scotland manage to reverse a jury’s decision?

2. What titles does Matthew note Rudolf holds?

3. What errors in her father’s period clothing does Diana note when she first encounters him in Elizabethan England?

4. What is Lobero?

5. What route does Matthew propose to get himself and Diana to Sept-Tours once they return to their present, and why?

6. How does Diana describe the illustration on the intact first page of Ashmole 782?

7. What does Marlowe propose to do to Diana in the tiltyard at Greenwich?

8. What does Diana note is an unexpected benefit of being a weaver as she and Matthew prepare for their first meeting with the Holy Roman Emperor?

9. What does Gallowglass note smelling in Ashmole 782?

10. What spring-welcoming does Kelley mention that angers Matthew?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Throughout the novel, Diana notes a series of colored threads. What symbolism attaches to the color selections of those threads throughout? What patterns of symbolism emerge in them? What meaning attaches to those patterns? How so?

Essay Topic 2

Marlowe remarks that “Matthew cannot keep playing Odysseus to [Diana’s] Circe” (23). Explicate the analogy; that is, explain why Matthew takes the place of Odysseus relative to Diana, the witch, being likened to Circe.

Essay Topic 3

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?

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