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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 do Thursday and Bowden want to know at the beginning of Chapter 16?

2. When did the Goliath Corporation help England rebuild?

3. Who is narrating this story?

4. Why does Thursday have some of Edward Rochester's belongings?

5. Who is Mycroft's assistant?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Colonel Phelps, and why is he headed to Swindon?

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

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

4. Why does Buckett leave the stakeout?

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

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

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

8. When the Martin Chuzzlewit manuscript is stolen, what two things does Thursday discover that are strange about the crime scene?

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

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

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

Explain the main conflict in the story. Is it resolved by the end of the story? If so, how?

Essay Topic 3

What is alternative history? Compare and contrast the 1985 England of reality and the 1985 England of The Eyre Affair.

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