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

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

3. Who is Mycroft's assistant?
(a) Thursday.
(b) Mom Next.
(c) He doesn't have one.
(d) Polly.

4. Who is Styx?
(a) Acheron's cousin.
(b) Acheron's neighbor.
(c) Acheron's servant.
(d) Acheron's brother.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Bowden Cable?

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

3. What is the job of SO-5?

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

5. What appears in Thursday's hospital room?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the LiteraTecs' office in Swindon.

2. What was Spike doing when he called for help?

3. Describe Thursday Next.

4. Why does Thursday's mother want her to call Landon Park-Laine?

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

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

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

8. Who is Jack Schitt, and what does he talk to Thursday about at the cemetery?

9. What does Thursday's conversation with Victor and Bowden at the hotel bar reveal about Jack Schitt?

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

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