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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the poet Doyle is researching for a new biography?
(a) Ashbless.
(b) Coleridge.
(c) Nostrand.
(d) Treff.

2. What is Fikee casting a spell to open?
(a) The Book of Thoth.
(b) The gates of Anubis.
(c) A crate.
(d) A vial.

3. Where do the time tourists claim to be from?
(a) Bristol.
(b) Virginia.
(c) Massachusetts.
(d) California.

4. Who says, "Time is comparable to a river flowing under a layer of ice. It stretches us out like water weeds, from root to tip, from birth to death, curled around whatever rocks or snags happen to lie in our path; and no one can get out of the river because of the ice roof, and no one can turn back against the current for an instant?"
(a) Darrow.
(b) Treff.
(c) Benner.
(d) Doyle.

5. Doyle debates going inside the same pub he sees the whistler enter. Who encourages him to go inside?
(a) Kusiak.
(b) Benner.
(c) Morningstar.
(d) Lord Byron.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Doyle say he sees behind their carriage on the way to the lecture?

2. What does Romany do to mask Doyle's cry for help?

3. Who does Copenhagen Jack tell Doyle to be?

4. What wooden carving does Damnable Richard talk to?

5. Who grabs Doyle's leg before Bugs can lead Doyle away?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Dumb Tom.

2. Jacky is captured by Horrabin's beggars and put down a hole. What happens up until her escape?

3. What are the Spoonsize Boys?

4. Why is one of the ticketed customers escorted away before the time jump?

5. What happens when the time tourists arrive at the lecture?

6. What happens to Fairchild when Doyle first arrives at the beggar's house?

7. How does Jacky end up at the river where Doyle is being pursued?

8. What is curious about the bullet shot at Doyle?

9. Doyle is watching Lord Byron drinking in a pub when he wakes up in very different circumstances. Describe what has happened to him.

10. What sort of questions does Darrow ask Doyle during Doyle's interview?

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