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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. Chapter Twenty-two begins with which of the following?
2. With what mark does Answelica leave Edik?
3. Chapter Twenty-one begins with which of the following?
4. Which of the following is illustrated in Chapter Ten?
5. What are Edik’s first words in the novel?
Short Essay Questions
1. What story does Beatryce promise to tell of Edik’s mermaid?
2. In Chapter Eight, what does Beatryce first discuss with *Answelica*?
3. Early in Chapter One, what is portrayed as among Answelica’s favorite games?
4. At the beginning of Chapter Fourteen, what sobriquets does Bibspeak apply to Jack?
5. What reason does Edik give for having been in a field with Answelica early in Chapter Three?
6. In Chapter Six, what does Edik note wanting his letters to illuminate?
7. Why do the monks purpose to send Beatryce on the errand to Jack’s village?
8. In Chapter Five, how does Beatryce describe the seahorse?
9. What job does Jack have in his village, and why?
10. In Chapter Four, how does Edik initially assess the condition of the child who had been curled up next to Answelica?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Note what characters are named in the text and which are not. What significance does the refusal to name certain characters have in the novel, and how does that significance emerge?
Essay Topic 2
Typically, an epigraph is expected to speak to or set the tone for the work it introduces. Does the epigraph of The Beatryce Prophecy do so for the present novel? How or how not?
Essay Topic 3
Cannoc remarks that “No one comes looking for a king. For as soon as a king disappears, those who would replace him start to scheme and calculate about how to take the crown for themselves” (109). To what extent do the novel and experience bear out his remark? How do the novel and experience do so?
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