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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 kind of business is Devlin’s?

2. What does Gideon cite as the source of Esther Tull’s self-embroidery?

3. From which language does Gideon note “salient” derives?

4. What is the name of Esther Tull’s elder sister?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. For what does Angela note the mudlarks root?

3. How does George unsettle the police sergeant with whom he converses as he works to help Octavia find information?

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

5. What remarks does Cutter’s landlady make regarding Gideon’s appearance as a sergeant?

6. What lunch does Octavia prepare for herself after her fruitless pursuit of information about Strythe and his travels?

7. How is Gideon turned out of the church where he spends his first night in London?

8. With what does Octavia dicker with a railroad staffer for passenger information?

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

10. When Carew answers the door for Cutter and Gideon at Strythe’s London house, to what does Cutter mockingly ascribe his slowness in doing so?

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

Explicate the significance of the name of any one character in the novel.

Essay Topic 3

Readerly attention focuses on the final passage of Kyrie, in which it is revealed that Esther Tull has stitched into her own skin the following:
“MY SOUL DOTH
MAGNIFY
THE LORD” (108).

What about the passage justifies the readerly attention, and how does it do so?

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