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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. The comment that “It was full of light, and after the gloom and dust of the preceding chambers, entering it felt like taking in a lungful of clean air” (397) offers an example of which of the following?

2. Which of the following does Diana have in her purse when she meets with Elizabeth following her return from Prague?

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

4. To which of the following ravens does Gallowglass liken Matthew?

5. Which of the following does Diana encounter in the tiltyard at Greenwich?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Diana note in Bedlam is Matthew’s greatest fear?

2. What perils does Matthew note to Diana that their interpersonal situation poses them in Prague?

3. What does Gallowglass note smelling in Ashmole 782?

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

5. What is Lobero?

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

7. How does Knox kill Skovajsa?

8. What reasons does Matthew give to Elizabeth for leaving Kelley in Prague?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

When Diana remarks that the loss of Matthew’s first wife and child could not have been prevented, he replies that he “could have stopped [himself] from having her. Then there would have been no one to lose!” (139), speaking to a nihilistic perspective that the pain of loss is greater than the joy of love. Does the novel support that perspective? How is that support or its lack shown in the text?

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

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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