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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the title of the poem Mycroft sends Polly into?
(a) "The Wasteland."
(b) "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud."
(c) "Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day?"
(d) "The Jabberwocky."

2. Who joins Thursday at the piano in the hotel bar?
(a) Victor Analogy.
(b) Landon Park-Laine.
(c) Her father.
(d) Bowden Cable.

3. Who is the Swindon SpecOps director?
(a) Jack Schitt.
(b) Braxton Hicks.
(c) Victor Analogy.
(d) Bowden Cable.

4. What does the surveillance footage reveal?
(a) A woman stole the manuscript.
(b) A man stole the manuscript.
(c) Nothing.
(d) It was an inside job.

5. Who appears in Thursday's hospital room?
(a) Styx.
(b) Thursday's father.
(c) Acheron.
(d) Thursday herself.

6. Who arrives and starts a gunfight as Thursday and Bowden are seeking information?
(a) Felix7.
(b) Jim Crometty.
(c) Acheron Hades.
(d) Sturmey Archer.

7. Who is fighting in the Crimean War?
(a) The British and Americans.
(b) The British and Russians.
(c) The British and Swiss.
(d) The British and French.

8. Why is Colonel Phelps going to Swindon?
(a) He is returning from a seaside holiday.
(b) He is returning from a LiteraTec conference in London.
(c) To speak in favor of the Crimean War.
(d) To look for Thursday's father.

9. Why does Mycroft need a new assistant?
(a) His last assistant mysteriously vanished.
(b) His last assistant was fired for stealing his ideas.
(c) His last assistant was killed in an accident.
(d) His last assistant quit to work for another inventor.

10. Where is the stakeout that Thursday goes on?
(a) Styx's apartment.
(b) A local pub.
(c) In front of the Swindon library.
(d) Acheron's apartment.

11. Why does Tamworth want Thursday to help SO-5?
(a) Acheron is still in love with her, so she can persuade him to turn himself in.
(b) He needs a fresh perspective in the investigation.
(c) She is one of the few people who can identify him.
(d) She owes him a favor.

12. When Mycroft's bookworms eat words, what do they give back?
(a) Individual letters.
(b) Antonyms.
(c) Misspellings of the same word.
(d) Synonyms.

13. Who shares a building with SpecOps?
(a) The local fire department.
(b) A local grammar school.
(c) The local police.
(d) The local public library.

14. Who is Edward Rochester?
(a) A character in the novel Martin Chuzzlewit.
(b) A character in Romeo and Juliet.
(c) A character in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
(d) A character in the novel Jane Eyre.

15. Who is Colonel Phelps?
(a) Thursday's former partner.
(b) Thursday's boss in Swindon.
(c) Thursday's former commanding officer.
(d) Thursday's father's former partner.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who took Thursday to Haworth House when she was a child?

2. What is SO-1?

3. Why is Acheron Hades's name never spoken aloud?

4. What appears in Thursday's hospital room?

5. When Thursday returns to her hotel after helping Spike, what is waiting for her?

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