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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. Who is Thursday meeting at the play?
(a) Victor.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Bowden.
(d) Landon.

2. Who does a waitress recognize Thursday as while she's at lunch with Bowden?
(a) Anton Next's sister.
(b) The newest addition to Swindon LiteraTec.
(c) Landon Park-Laine's ex-fiance.
(d) The driver of a brightly-colored car.

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

4. What is the job of SO-5?
(a) The job of SO-5 is classified, so no one knows for sure.
(b) To capture Acheron Hades.
(c) To capture vampires, werewolves, and other creatures.
(d) To police members of SpecOps.

5. What saves Thursday's life when she is shot?
(a) A bulletproof vest.
(b) A copy of the novel Martin Chuzzlewit.
(c) A copy of the novel Jane Eyre.
(d) Buckett pushes her out of the way at the last minute.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Colonel Phelps going to Swindon?

2. Who is Edward Rochester?

3. What is the name of the person who shows Thursday where Spike is?

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

5. Who is fighting in the Crimean War?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Explain Thursday's relationship with Landon Park-Laine.

3. What is the large book in Mycroft's workshop, and what does it do?

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

5. Why is there a riot that Thursday sees on the news in her hotel room?

6. Describe Uncle Mycroft's workshop.

7. What is the Goliath Corporation?

8. Who is Felix7?

9. Explain what happened at the stakeout after Buckett left.

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

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