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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 color does Thursday's father NOT want the bedroom to be painted?
(a) Yellow.
(b) Mauve.
(c) Maroon.
(d) Seafoam green.

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

3. 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.

4. How does Thursday return to Swindon?
(a) By car.
(b) By train.
(c) By bus.
(d) By airship.

5. What does Thursday see as she's driving through town from the airport?
(a) Acheron Hades.
(b) Edward Rochester's horse.
(c) The car that appeared in her hospital room.
(d) Her father.

Short Answer Questions

1. Besides Thursday, who answers Spike's call for help over the wireless?

2. What does Thursday tell her mother when she brings up Landon Park-Laine?

3. Who is fighting in the Crimean War?

4. What is Spike doing when Thursday finds him?

5. When was the last time Thursday went out with the person she meets at the play?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. After Thursday's report, Flanker tells her that Acheron is dead. How did he die?

5. Describe the LiteraTecs' office in Swindon.

6. Describe Uncle Mycroft's workshop.

7. What is a Will-Speak machine?

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

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

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

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