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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following is the best definition for zugzwang?
(a) Caught by ones enemy
(b) Stuck without apparent options
(c) Stuck in the past
(d) At the solution to the problem

2. How did Catherine, Lily and Solarin get to see Robespierre's diagram?
(a) They went to Russia to get it
(b) It was hidden on the boat
(c) Minnie gave it to them
(d) Mireille had it in her diary

3. Which of the following characters is revealed to be the Black King?
(a) Harry
(b) Mordecai
(c) Solarin
(d) Nim

4. What does Catherine tell Lily science has discovered that everything (matter, light and sound) is held together by?
(a) Waves of power
(b) Particles
(c) Music
(d) Chemicals

5. Which of the following characters claimed to have decoded the formula in the service?
(a) Philidor
(b) Newton
(c) Jefferson
(d) Blake

Short Answer Questions

1. Why can't El-Marad go to visit the woman who has several of the chess pieces himself?

2. Who promises the Bishop safety and prosperity if he returns to France?

3. Who does Robespierre say that Rousseau learned about the service from?

4. Which of the following characters helps Mireille get the Abbess out of her prison?

5. Where is the Service's chessboard located?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Catherine recall about the time when the lunar and solar calendars cycle back to return to their starting points?

2. Where is Lily and how do Catherine and Kamel save her?

3. What connection does Lily explain to Catherine about the ax and chess?

4. What information related to the Montglane service does Mireille learn when she confronts Philidor, Blake and Wordsworth?

5. What prophecy does Charlot offer to Napoleon?

6. What happens when Catherine and Lily make it inside the restaurant and what are they challenged to?

7. What events happen with the Bishop in London and what does she bring him?

8. What does Minnie tell Catherine that she was chosen to be and what realization about herself does Catherine come to?

9. Why was the Bishop reduced to selling land to French immigrants for the four years that he has been living in America?

10. What alternative plan does Solarin offer once it is obvious that the storm has blown the ship significantly off course?

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