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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Thursday go after the play?

2. What happens just before Thursday's father appears to her?

3. Who shows Thursday to the room where Spike is?

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

5. Who wrote Martin Chuzzlewit?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Explain Thursday's relationship with Acheron Hades.

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

4. Explain what happens when Thursday's father visits, and why.

5. What is SpecOps? Explain the division of SpecOps that Thursday works for.

6. What is the Goliath Corporation?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Suspense is a technique used frequently in The Eyre Affair. Define suspense and give one specific example of suspense from the story. Is the author's use of suspense effective? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

What are the types of characters in a story? Give an example of each. How do you know each of these characters fall into these types?

Essay Topic 3

What is the ChronoGuard? Explain the role of the ChronoGuard in The Eyre Affair using specific examples from the story.

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