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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. In which college at Cambridge does Gideon study?

2. Where does the maker of Strythe’s vials live?

3. What is the name of Elf’s valet?

4. To which of the following does Gideon direct the sergeant he impersonates?

5. With which of the following does Chapter XII begin?

Short Essay Questions

1. What reason does Octavia give for seeking out her editor rather than his deputy?

2. In their first tutoring session, how does Gideon offend Angela?

3. Why does Cutter note not having asked Carew about Esther Tull’s lodgings?

4. When he takes her out on a walk, how does Gideon offend Angela?

5. For what reasons is Gideon anxious to meet with his uncle in his dwellings?

6. What reason is given for the attempt to prevent Octavia from confronting her editor at his club?

7. What reason is given for Cutter’s threat to charge Carew with destruction of evidence?

8. Generally, how is the church described in which Gideon spends his first night in London?

9. How does Cutter describe his landlady’s cooking (133)?

10. What reason for pride does Esther Tull have in her self-stitching?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Who is the second most important character of the novel? How does the novel support such an assertion?

Essay Topic 2

Similarly, major sectional divisions of a novel, when titled, often speak to the tone of the sections they title. Do the section-titles in the novel serve that function for The House on Vesper Sands? How or how not?

Essay Topic 3

Assuming that The House on Vesper Sands should be standard reading for a given class and level, what class and what level? Why that class and why that level? What in the text suggests as much, and how does it do so?

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