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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. When Thursday goes into the SpecOps building, who is the desk sergeant talking to about a crime?

2. What is the name of the hotel Thursday checks into?

3. How does Edward Rochester's horse fall?

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

5. Who does the kidnapping?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain Thursday's relationship with Acheron Hades.

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

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

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

5. Why does Buckett leave the stakeout?

6. Describe the LiteraTecs' office in Swindon.

7. Who is Mr. Quaverly?

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

9. Who is Snood, and what is his relationship to Thursday?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

Identify the protagonist and antagonist from The Eyre Affair. How do you know these characters are the protagonist and antagonist? What is the conflict between them? Do any other characters or forces work against the protagonist? If so, who/what? And how?

Essay Topic 3

What is a flashback? Give examples of two flashbacks from The Eyre Affair. Explain the purposes of the flashbacks in the plot of the story. Be specific.

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