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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 is an ingredient in Love Potion Number Nine?

2. Which of the following series is Sally reported to have read?

3. At which of the following had Ian Wright taught?

4. At what pub do the Owenses wait while Sally makes contact with Wright?

5. In what year do the Owenses reach Massachusetts?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Ward ask Vincent to do as the latter leaves the Invisible Library?

2. When, per Jet, does Love Potion Number Nine work best?

3. What is the condition of Lockland’s ancestral estate?

4. What does Vincent write to Fanny after Jet’s death?

5. How does the novel note left-hand paths begin (132)?

6. What is noted as the usual custom for personal Grimoires when their authors die?

7. What is the origin of the Owens Library in the novel?

8. Explicate the irony in Lockland’s comments that the people of Thornfield do not know what to think about people like him?

9. What is called the “greatest treasure” of the Owens Library (103)?

10. For what reasons does Gillian send Kylie after a sweater following Jet’s funeral?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the central discourse of the novel? That is, what is the main point the novel makes—not its theme, as such, but its main message? How does the novel bear out that discourse? What makes it the major point made in the book?

Essay Topic 2

There are many excellent early American women poets: Bradstreet, Wheatley, Rowson, and Warren, among others. What purpose is served by the focus of the novel on the poetry of Dickinson? How is it served?

Essay Topic 3

Consider the novel’s preoccupation with Shakespeare, not only in the main text, but also in the back matter. What effect does that preoccupation have on the readers, and how is that effect achieved?

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