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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happened to age Snood?
(a) He chose to be aged.
(b) Time passed.
(c) A Chronoguard accident.
(d) A Chronoguard punishment for insubordination.

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

3. Who is the author of the poem Mycroft wants to send Polly into?
(a) William Shakespeare.
(b) William Wordsworth.
(c) T. S. Eliot.
(d) Lewis Carroll.

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

5. What is on the handkerchief Thursday is given when she is discharged from the hospital?
(a) The initials AH.
(b) The initials EFR.
(c) Embroidered flowers.
(d) The initials TN.

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

7. Where is Thursday asked to go by the person who joins her at the piano?
(a) On a walk.
(b) To a play.
(c) To London.
(d) To a dance.

8. Who is taken from the story that is opened by the Prose Portal?
(a) Miss Havisham.
(b) Benvolio.
(c) Mr. Quaverly.
(d) Bertha.

9. When was the last time Thursday went out with the person she meets at the play?
(a) Ten years.
(b) Five years.
(c) It would be their first date.
(d) A year.

10. How does Thursday return to Swindon?
(a) By train.
(b) By bus.
(c) By car.
(d) By airship.

11. Who wrote Martin Chuzzlewit?
(a) William Shakespeare.
(b) Charles Dickens.
(c) F. Scott Fitzgerald.
(d) Charlotte Bronte.

12. Why is Haworth House famous?
(a) It was the site of a major battle in the Crimean War.
(b) It was the home of the Bronte sisters.
(c) It was the home of Charles Dickens.
(d) It was featured in an English television comedy.

13. What do Thursday and Bowden want to know at the beginning of Chapter 16?
(a) The location of the Martin Chuzzlewit manuscript.
(b) The location of the Prose Portal.
(c) The location of Thursday's Uncle Mycroft.
(d) The location of Acheron Hades.

14. Who does Snood appear to be to Thursday?
(a) A former babysitter.
(b) A childhood friend.
(c) The father of someone she dated.
(d) Her uncle's friend.

15. Who is narrating this story?
(a) Thursday Next.
(b) Acheron Hades.
(c) Jane Eyre.
(d) Landon Park-Laine.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Spike when he calls for help?

2. Who is Edward Rochester?

3. What story is going to be opened by the Prose Portal?

4. Who does a waitress recognize Thursday as while she's at lunch with Bowden?

5. Who is Mycroft's assistant?

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