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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 treatments is sent to Diana after she feigns illness to meet the Maharal?

2. Where do Diana and Matthew part from Pierre, Jack, and Annie on their journey from London to Prague?

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

4. Which of the following labels does Diana note gets applied to the compendium she received of Habermel?

5. In which of the following years does Matthew note receiving the salamander necklace he gives to Diana?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is the compendium Diana receives from Habermel?

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

4. How does Knox kill Skovajsa?

5. What information does Rabbi Loew provide to Diana and Matthew regarding Ashmole 782?

6. What is Lobero?

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

8. What does Diana note about the *outside* of the Bosch triptych Matthew receives in Prague?

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

10. What titles does Matthew note Rudolf holds?

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

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?

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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