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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. To which of the following ravens does Gallowglass liken himself?

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

3. As which of the following does Diana gloss the term “Schaduw”?

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

5. Which of the following professions is ascribed to Diana’s father?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. How does Knox kill Skovajsa?

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

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

8. What does Gallowglass note smelling in Ashmole 782?

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

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

Diana notes that, passing near St. Paul’s Cathedral in London, she “felt a surge of energy that reminded [her] of the temple to the goddess near Sept-Tours. Deep under the cathedral, something sensed [her] presence. It responded with a whisper, a slight stirring beneath [her] feet, a sigh of acknowledgement—and then it was gone” (241). Based on the novel and what it reveals of the author’s outside reading, what might that “something” be? Why might it be 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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