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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. What name does Elf give to his companion as he and Octavia travel to the house on Vesper Sands?
3. Of what origin does Cutter assert the crystal is that had been found at Esther Tull’s death-site?
4. To which of the following does Gideon compare Angela as he pursues her from the house on Vesper Sands?
5. What is the name of the legal correspondent for Octavia’s newspaper?
Short Essay Questions
1. As Gideon pursues Angela from the house on Vesper Sands, what prompts him to curse obscenely?
2. How does Ada explain the shipwreck visible from the house on Vesper Sands?
3. When confronted with the information Neuilly leaves for her in Deal, Octavia cites a familiar feeling: tenderness and anger mixed. From what is it familiar to her?
4. Why does Cutter think the traffic approaching the house on Vesper Sands as he and Gideon pursue Angela is not a coach?
5. How does Elf determine that Cutter is an independent agent?
6. What circumstances make it appear Strythe died in London?
7. When confronting Octavia at the house on Vesper Sands, what does Elf note about her history and prospects?
8. What pattern do Octavia and Elf note in the disappearances of young women associated with the Spiriters?
9. As Gideon pursues Angela from the house on Vesper Sands, why does he posit Cutter will think him mad?
10. As Gideon and Cutter arrive in Deal, what is Gideon’s primary concern?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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?
Essay Topic 2
Overall, what effect does the back matter of the novel have for the reader, and how is that effect achieved?
Essay Topic 3
What attitude does the novel display towards alcohol use? What in the novel effects that display, and how does it do so?
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