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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does SO-17 deal with?
(a) Literary crimes.
(b) Crimes within SpecOps.
(c) Crimes in the time-space continuum.
(d) Vampires and werewolves.

2. Who designed the security at the museum that held Martin Chuzzlewit?
(a) Bowden Cable.
(b) Acheron Hades.
(c) Thursday Next.
(d) Victor Analogy.

3. Who interrupts Thursday's conversation at the piano?
(a) Victor Analogy.
(b) Landon Park-Laine.
(c) Bowden Cable.
(d) Her father.

4. Which of these is NOT an invention that Mycroft shows Thursday in his workshop?
(a) An earpiece to hear the thoughts of animals.
(b) Translating carbon paper.
(c) A color-changing Rolls Royce.
(d) A device that can smell out a criminal's specific scent.

5. While at lunch with Bowden, who does Thursday discover has been kidnapped?
(a) Uncle Mycroft and Landon Park-Laine.
(b) Uncle Mycroft and Aunt Polly.
(c) Uncle Mycroft.
(d) Uncle Mycroft and Mom Next.

6. Who shows Thursday around the office and introduces her to everyone?
(a) Bowden.
(b) The desk sergeant.
(c) Victor.
(d) Spike.

7. What does Thursday notice about the glass on the display case?
(a) It looks warped.
(b) It appears to have been cut.
(c) It is no longer clear.
(d) It was shattered into equal-sized pieces.

8. What advice is Thursday given by the person who appears in her hospital room?
(a) She should go back to fight in the war.
(b) She should quit SpecOps.
(c) She should join the Chronoguard.
(d) She should take the job in Swindon.

9. What is Spike doing when Thursday finds him?
(a) Eating specimens in an anatomy lab.
(b) Killing a vampire.
(c) He is passed out on the floor.
(d) Exorcising a demon.

10. Who do Thursday and Bowden go see at the beginning of Chapter 16?
(a) Jim Crometty.
(b) Sturmey Archer.
(c) Acheron Hades.
(d) Felix7.

11. To what does Thursday compare the Swindon LiteraTec office?
(a) A library from a country home.
(b) Something out of a literary horror film.
(c) The London LiteraTec office.
(d) The library from her high school.

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

13. What does Colonel Phelps want Thursday to do?
(a) Give up on her investigation of Acheron Hades.
(b) Give her mother a message from him.
(c) Speak in favor of the Crimean War.
(d) Meet him for dinner the next time they are both in London.

14. Who is Victor Analogy?
(a) Thursday's former classmate.
(b) Thursday's new partner.
(c) Thursday's cousin.
(d) Thursday's new boss.

15. Who picks Thursday up from the airport?
(a) Landon.
(b) Thursday's mom.
(c) Spike.
(d) Thursday's dad.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What saves Thursday's life when she is shot?

3. Who is Mycroft's assistant?

4. What is in the overcoat Thursday is given when she is discharged from the hospital?

5. What is the division of SpecOps that Thursday works for?

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