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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. What is the title of the poem Mycroft sends Polly into?

2. Who is taken from the story that is opened by the Prose Portal?

3. What is the job of SO-5?

4. What does Thursday hide from Jack Schitt when he arrives at the scene?

5. Who do Thursday and Bowden go see at the beginning of Chapter 16?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe Thursday Next.

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

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

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

6. Explain Thursday's relationship with Acheron Hades.

7. Who is Felix7?

8. What is the Goliath Corporation?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is tone? What is the overall tone of The Eyre Affair? How do you know? Use specific examples from the story to support your claim. Does the tone of The Eyre Affair change throughout the story? If so, give an example.

Essay Topic 2

What is genre? What is the main genre of The Eyre Affair? How do you know? Could The Eyre Affair fall into any other genre(s)? If so, which one(s)? How do you know?

Essay Topic 3

Compare and contrast Acheron Hades and Jack Schitt, and explain each character's relationship to Thursday Next.

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