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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. Which of the following does Diana note appears on the second page of the intact Ashmole 782?
3. 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?
4. On which level of Diana and Matthew’s house in Prague do the vampires in their household sleep?
5. By which of the following names is it noted that Matthew went in the court of Henry VIII?
Short Essay Questions
1. How, per Hubbard, does James of Scotland manage to reverse a jury’s decision?
2. What does Diana note about the *outside* of the Bosch triptych Matthew receives in Prague?
3. How do Matthew and Elizabeth plan to address the matter of Ashmole 782 with Rudolf’s ambassador?
4. What is Lobero?
5. 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?
6. What errors in her father’s period clothing does Diana note when she first encounters him in Elizabethan England?
7. What reasons does Matthew give to Elizabeth for leaving Kelley in Prague?
8. What does Diana note in Bedlam is Matthew’s greatest fear?
9. Why does Matthew note to Diana that he wishes to wear red hose?
10. What spring-welcoming does Kelley mention that angers Matthew?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Philippe comments that what Matthew “possesses is belief, which is quite different [from faith] and depends on the head rather than the heart” (136). Is the comment about the relationship between belief and faith accurate within the context of the novel? What in the text indicates that it is or is not? How does it do so?
Essay Topic 2
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?
Essay Topic 3
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?
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