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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. Where does Thursday go after the play?
(a) On a walk.
(b) For drinks.
(c) For coffee.
(d) To dinner.

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

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

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

5. In addition to the Prose Portal, what does Thursday discover is missing from her uncle's workshop at home?
(a) The color-changing car.
(b) The translating carbon paper.
(c) Nothing.
(d) The bookworms.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who does Thursday have a conversation with in a dream that night?

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

4. When Thursday arrives to help Spike, what does he need from his squad car?

5. Who appears in Thursday's hospital room?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. While Thursday is in the hospital, a car appears in her room. Who is in the car, and what does this person tell her?

3. Explain Thursday's relationship with Acheron Hades.

4. Who is Pickwick, and what is his relationship with Thursday?

5. Why did Spike need help?

6. What is unusual about the performance of Richard III that Thursday goes to with Landon?

7. Explain the debate about Sir Francis Bacon and Shakespeare's plays.

8. Who is Felix7?

9. Who is Mr. Quaverly?

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

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