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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. Which of the following characters is revealed to be the Black King?

2. What does Mireille name the falcon that she captures and trains to hunt for her and her guide as they travel across Algeria?

3. What does Shahin tell Mireille that he knows that she desires?

4. What is Solarin's relationship with Minnie?

5. Which character is wounded during the storm?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What information does Kamel share with Catherine about El-Marad, the man she is looking for?

4. Why does the Bishop protest Mireille's suggestion that he must marry the White Queen to help end the game?

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

6. Describe in detail how Catherine, Lily and Carioca make it out of the restaurant?

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

8. What prophecy does Charlot offer to Napoleon?

9. What does Mireille see when she arrives at the hidden valley and what happens when she arrives there?

10. What is Paul's plan now that Catherine the Great has died?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

At the beginning of the novel. the character of Catherine asks the rhetorical question as to what might happen if America should lose control of the world's oil supply. Toward the middle of the novel this rhetorical question is given real meaning. Why do you think the author included this line of thinking? Is it part of the puzzle? If so, in what way?

Essay Topic 2

Which events in the novel are most effective at being descriptive rather than puzzle making? Why do you believe these events were included? Do you believe there was enough description in this novel? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

Of what significance is April 4th and how does the author develop the idea of this date throughout the novel? What things (people and events) does it represent a spiritually convergent date for? What and how does this foreshadow?

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