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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. Whom of the following calls in sick after a fight with her husband?

2. Which of the following is slated to publish Wright’s book?

3. Ink made from which of the following is found in the Owens Grimoire?

4. What type of tree is the oldest noted in the forest near Thornfield?

5. Which of the following epithets had attached itself to Franny in her youth?

Short Essay Questions

1. What recipe does Margaret give Gillian?

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

3. What does Lockland claim is the purpose of magic (257)?

4. What early evidence of precocity does Antonia’s son show?

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

6. What punishment does the novel note for molesting the trees noted in the Domesday Book?

7. How does Lockland escape Sally?

8. How does Vincent attempt to summon the ghost of his late beloved?

9. What is the lesson Sally and Gillian take from their experiences (377)?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

Assuming that The Book of Magic should be standard reading for a given class and level, what class and what level? Why that class and why that level? What in the text suggests as much, and how does it do so?

Essay Topic 3

Readerly attention also focuses on the following passage: “Seeing has little to do with opening your eyes; it’s what you feel inside that counts, it’s what you know without anyone telling you [sic]” (36). What in the novel and in experience support the passage? How do they do so?

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