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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 in Jack’s village had been called off to war?

2. How long does Bibspeak live after taking Jack in?

3. Chapter Eleven begins with which of the following?

4. In Chapter Seven, what does Beatryce remember?

5. Chapter Sixteen begins with which of the following?

Short Essay Questions

1. Early in Chapter One, what is portrayed as among Answelica’s favorite games?

2. In Chapter Six, what does Edik note wanting his letters to illuminate?

3. What reason does Edik give for having been in a field with Answelica early in Chapter Three?

4. What do the king and the counselor discuss in their interlude in Chapter Six?

5. In Chapter Eight, how does Edik describe the Chronicles of Sorrowing?

6. In Chapter Eight, what does Beatryce first discuss with Edik?

7. In Chapter Five, how does Beatryce describe the seahorse?

8. What story does Beatryce promise to tell of Edik’s mermaid?

9. At the beginning of Chapter Fourteen, what sobriquets does Bibspeak apply to Jack?

10. How does Edik describe the child’s crying in Chapter Three?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Edik muses that “Again and again, the world insisted upon betrayals, goodbyes” (63). To what extent do the novel and experience bear out his musing? How do the novel and experience do so?

Essay Topic 3

Explicate the significance of the Jack Dory’s name.

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