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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 fish is served at the medium performance Octavia attends?
2. At which inn does Elf take lodgings in Deal?
3. Who greets Gideon and Cutter on their arrival at the house on Vesper Sands?
4. Which of the following scholars does O’Donnell cite for references to policing?
5. What profession does Cutter note his father had had?
Short Essay Questions
1. As Gideon pursues Angela from the house on Vesper Sands, why does he posit Cutter will think him mad?
2. How does Cutter explain his specialty to Gideon?
3. As Gideon and Cutter arrive in Deal, what is Gideon’s primary concern?
4. What reasons for caution in pursuing his theories does Cutter note to Gideon at the house on Vesper Sands?
5. How does Ada explain the shipwreck visible from the house on Vesper Sands?
6. What does O’Donnell note as the only historical liberty he knowingly takes (401)?
7. What pattern do Octavia and Elf note in the disappearances of young women associated with the Spiriters?
8. What does O’Donnell note as the likely effect of a full bibliography for a work of fiction (401)?
9. How does Cutter explain Angela’s condition to Gideon?
10. What suggestion does Gideon make about Cutter’s specialty in policing?
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
Late in the novel, readerly attention focuses itself on the comment that “We can only keep house, in this life. We cannot tear up the foundations” (394). Does the novel support the comment or not? What in the text shows as much, and how does it show it?
Essay Topic 3
What is the point of broadest contrast between the city where you live—as determined by your postal address—and the primary setting of the novel? How does that point contrast, based on experience and the novel?
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