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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. Near which of the following does Hoffman live?

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

3. What drink does Ward teach a bartender to make before Sally’s wedding?

4. What does Kylie name her cat?

5. In which of the following is Wright’s publisher located?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What reasons are given for Ariel’s choice of scent?

10. Whence comes the town library in Thornfield?

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

To what genre other than fantasy fiction might the novel belong? What in the novel suggests as much, and how does it do so?

Essay Topic 3

What is the novel’s overall attitude towards religion? How does that attitude manifest in the book?

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