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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 curse does Lockland propose to enact on Thornfield?

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

3. What book is attributed to Cora Wilkie?

4. With which of the following does Part Five, Chapter IV begin?

5. With which of the following does Part Four, Chapter IV begin?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How are shades defined in the novel?

3. What herbs and spices does Sally include in her pie crust?

4. Whence comes the town library in Thornfield?

5. What does the Owens, who cast the curse on the family, note must be done to lift the curse?

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

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

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

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

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

The most important theme of the novel, love, is clear. What is the second-most-important theme of The Book of Magic. What in the text indicates as much? How does it do so?

Essay Topic 2

The Book of the Raven has in it an inscription from Jet that reads “Everything worthwhile is dangerous” (107). Does the novel bear out the inscription? How or how not?

Essay Topic 3

Readerly attention focuses on the following passage: “Franny understood this was how loss began. She had been here before, but then, like anyone else, she had forgotten this is what happened, that things ended when you least expected them to, that you could not protect those you loved from nature and fate” (18). What in the novel and in experience support the passage? How do they do so?

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