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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. Which of the following does Ada order for herself, Gideon, and Cutter at greeting them?
2. What does Elf note is Cutter’s given name?
3. What ship is visible from the house on Vesper Sands?
4. What is the name of the porter at Elf’s lodgings in Deal?
5. What kind of cloud does Ada point out to Angela?
Short Essay Questions
1. As Gideon pursues Angela from the house on Vesper Sands, what prompts him to curse obscenely?
2. What suggestion does Gideon make about Cutter’s specialty in policing?
3. What reasons for caution in pursuing his theories does Cutter note to Gideon at the house on Vesper Sands?
4. What circumstances make it appear Strythe died in London?
5. What does O’Donnell note as the likely effect of a full bibliography for a work of fiction (401)?
6. What pattern do Octavia and Elf note in the disappearances of young women associated with the Spiriters?
7. What does O’Donnell note as the only historical liberty he knowingly takes (401)?
8. As Gideon and Cutter arrive in Deal, what is Gideon’s primary concern?
9. The hostess of the medium performance Octavia attends has money from her husband. What is the source of that money?
10. How does Neuilly convince Octavia of his sincerity and lucidity in the letter he leaves for her?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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?
Essay Topic 2
What attitude does the novel display towards alcohol use? What in the novel effects that display, and how does it do so?
Essay Topic 3
Who is the protagonist of the novel? How does the novel support such an assertion?
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