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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 is the name of Octavia’s editor?

2. Which paper is sold by the vendor Octavia runs into with her bicycle?

3. What sergeant do Cutter and Gideon encounter at the church where Gideon spent his first night in London?

4. With what does Esther Tull grease the lock on the safe in Strythe’s workroom?

5. What is the name of Neuilly’s landlady?

Short Essay Questions

1. What comment does Angela’s landlady make about men doing harm (180)?

2. For what does Angela note the mudlarks root?

3. What does Neuilly initially note to Gideon as the focus of his ministry?

4. How does Octavia’s editor initially attempt to alter his agreement with her?

5. What reasons does Gideon cite for hastening to answer his uncle’s summons?

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

7. Why does Esther Tull note feeling called to prayer?

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

9. Why is Gideon commended to the care of the groundskeeper at his boyhood school?

10. What explanation does Gideon give for not being able to find his uncle’s dwellings?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Overall, what effect does the back matter of the novel have for the reader, and how is that effect achieved?

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

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

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