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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 question does Thursday want answered by her father at her wedding reception?

2. What is Mycroft allowed to do at the beginning of Chapter 24?

3. What weapon will the Prose Portal make work for the Goliath Corporation?

4. What does Victor see people wearing at the meeting as they're milling around?

5. What does Thursday use to close the time vortex on the highway?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when readers begin to notice that Jane Eyre has been kidnapped?

2. What are Acheron's demands, according to the letter he sends to Thursday's office?

3. What is the story of Jane Eyre, as Thursday tells it to Bowden?

4. How does Thursday's father settle the debate about the authorship of Shakespeare's plays?

5. What happens at the drop?

6. Why does Jack Schitt want the Prose Portal?

7. What does Mycroft do to the Martin Chuzzlewit manuscript? Why?

8. What does Jack Schitt tell Thursday about the Goliath Advanced Weapons Division?

9. What do the LiteraTecs learn about Dr. Muller?

10. Why do Thursday and Acheron have to work together in Jane Eyre?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explain the role of literature in the society of The Eyre Affair. Use specific examples from the story to show this role.

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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