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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. To which of the following is Gideon compared?
2. With which of the following does Chapter VI begin?
3. Which playwright is quoted in the novel’s epigraph?
4. To which of the following does Gideon direct the sergeant he impersonates?
5. Where does Gideon note first having seen Angela?
Short Essay Questions
1. Generally, how is the church described in which Gideon spends his first night in London?
2. What sounds does Esther Tull note associate with the safe in Strythe’s workroom?
3. What reason does the inspector who accompanies Cutter and Gideon to Esther Tull’s lodgings ask to shut the open window?
4. What reasons does Gideon cite for hastening to answer his uncle’s summons?
5. How does Esther Tull note having regarded snow as a child?
6. What reason does Octavia give for seeking out her editor rather than his deputy?
7. When he takes her out on a walk, how does Gideon offend Angela?
8. What explanation does Gideon give for not being able to find his uncle’s dwellings?
9. Angela celebrates her birthday as being 7 May. Why?
10. For what reasons is Gideon anxious to meet with his uncle in his dwellings?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
To what genre other than mystery might The House on Vesper Sands be considered to belong? What in the text supports that genre-identification, and how does it do so?
Essay Topic 2
Section divisions, their titles, and chapter numbering / division schema are all components of paratext. That is, they are not part of the text but are associated with it closely and affect its meaning. What significance, if any, accrues to the chapter-numbering scheme at work in The House on Vesper Sands? If there is significance, how does that significance manifest? If there is not, what in the novel supports the paratextual divisions that are in place?
Essay Topic 3
Overall, what is the most important theme of The House on Vesper Sands. What in the text indicates as much? How does it do so?
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