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

2. Why is Acheron Hades's name never spoken aloud?
(a) It is too difficult to pronounce.
(b) He will hear it.
(c) He will be offended if it is said too often.
(d) It is not his real name.

3. Who does Jack question Thursday about?
(a) Anton Next.
(b) Styx Hades.
(c) Landon Park-Laine.
(d) Acheron Hades.

4. A man comes to the window at the stakeout. Who does he say wrote Shakespeare's plays?
(a) Sir Francis Bacon.
(b) Anne Hathaway.
(c) Charlotte Bronte.
(d) Charles Dickens.

5. Where does Thursday meet Victor and Bowden?
(a) The SpecOps building.
(b) The hotel bar.
(c) A local pub.
(d) Her mother's house.

Short Answer Questions

1. While at lunch with Bowden, who does Thursday discover has been kidnapped?

2. Who wrote Martin Chuzzlewit?

3. What color does Thursday's father NOT want the bedroom to be painted?

4. Who arrives and starts a gunfight as Thursday and Bowden are seeking information?

5. Who is narrating this story?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Thursday Next.

2. Why doesn't anyone respond to Spike's call on the wireless?

3. Who is Snood, and what is his relationship to Thursday?

4. When the Martin Chuzzlewit manuscript is stolen, what two things does Thursday discover that are strange about the crime scene?

5. Why does Acheron Hades threaten to burn a copy of "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" in order to get Uncle Mycroft to cooperate?

6. Who is Felix7?

7. Why does Acheron Hades use the Martin Chuzzlewit manuscript in the Prose Portal instead of a copy of the book?

8. What does Thursday learn from Rochester in her dream?

9. How does Thursday feel about returning to her mother's home? How do you know?

10. Why do Victor and Bowden think Thursday is in Swindon?

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