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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. What bird do Lockland and Kylie hear as they head toward Lockland’s ancestral estate?

2. What curse does Lockland propose to enact on Thornfield?

3. Near which of the following do the Owenses pass en route to Thornfield?

4. What is the name of the drink Gillian invents?

5. Along which of the following Boston streets are spirits said to walk?

Short Essay Questions

1. What ingredients are in Franny’s cure for drunkenness (292)?

2. How does Lockland escape Sally?

3. What symptoms does Kylie display from Lockland’s curse?

4. What reasons does Ian have, publicly and privately, for quartering the Owenses in an inn in Thornfield?

5. What rites are needed to join the Society of the Horseman’s Grip and Word?

6. What tradition is noted for hikers in Thornfield?

7. Whence comes the town library in Thornfield?

8. What is on the menu at the inn in Thornfield when Lockland’s curse takes hold (313)?

9. Antonia dreams of Jet while abed with Ariel; what does Jet say to her in the dream?

10. How does The Book of the Raven note a curse must be broken?

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

Sources attest to the presence of The Book of Magic on best-seller lists. Assuming that sales figures reflect popularity, what accounts for the popularity of the novel? How does it do so?

Essay Topic 3

The narrative makes the comment that “once you had what you wanted, left-handed magic took everything else in return. You didn’t even realize that you’d been burned until you looked down to discover you had been turned to ash” (120). What in the novel and in experience support the comment? How do they do so?

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