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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 note appears on the second page of the intact Ashmole 782?
2. Which of the following does Gallowglass introduce to Diana and Matthew’s household in Prague?
3. At which of the following locations do Diana and Matthew arrive back in their own time?
4. As which of the following does Diana gloss “Omni fine initium novum” (572)?
5. The comment “With famous court beauties given a role in the entertainment and wearing fabulously spangled and jeweled costumes, the masque quickly took on the tone of a school play, complete with admiring parents” (450) offers an example of which of the following?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Knox kill Skovajsa?
2. What is Lobero?
3. What does Gallowglass note smelling in Ashmole 782?
4. What is the compendium Diana receives from Habermel?
5. What does Matthew describe to Diana regarding taking blood in intimate relationships?
6. What does Diana note about the *inside* of the Bosch triptych Matthew receives in Prague?
7. Why does Matthew note to Diana that he wishes to wear red hose?
8. What titles does Matthew note Rudolf holds?
9. What spring-welcoming does Kelley mention that angers Matthew?
10. 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?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Throughout the text, it is emphasized that Diana will not eat venison, although she tastes stag’s blood and eats other meats. Within the novel, what significance attaches itself to the abstention? How does it do so?
Essay Topic 2
What attitude toward history—not as an academic subject, but as a record of what has been done and by whom—can be inferred from the novel? What in the text supports the inference? How does it do so?
Essay Topic 3
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.
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