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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. By how many days do the calendars in London and Prague differ?

2. Which of the following treatments is sent to Diana after she feigns illness to meet the Maharal?

3. On which level of their house in Prague do Diana and Matthew sleep?

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

5. Diana glosses the term “nachzehrer” as which of the following?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Knox kill Skovajsa?

2. What does Gallowglass note smelling in Ashmole 782?

3. What masque does Diana propose be performed to mark the approaching end of Lent?

4. 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?

5. What is Lobero?

6. How do Matthew and Elizabeth plan to address the matter of Ashmole 782 with Rudolf’s ambassador?

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

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

9. What is the compendium Diana receives from Habermel?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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 3

Consider the comments about The Faerie Queene that Diana and Marlowe make at the beginning of the fifth chapter (58). To what extent can they be taken as indicative of the author’s regard for the work? What in the text indicates as much? How does it do so?

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