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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. Who does Dupin interview to find out where Murray left?

2. What does he manage to convince the docent about?

3. Why is the team assembled?

4. What time period does this graphic novel open in?

5. Who leads the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is the British Government concerned with the scientists' creation?

2. What do Mina, Quatermain and Nemo witness?

3. Who is the Captain of the Nautilus, and where does the Nautilus take Mina?

4. How does Quatermain explain Jekyll's apparent illness?

5. What is the purpose of the team's investigation?

6. How does Quatermain feel about Murray?

7. Why is it likely that Quong Lee speaks in parables?

8. What would make Murray wonder about the reformative powers of the highly sexually based institution posing as a girls' reform school?

9. Describe Wilhelmina Murray's appearance.

10. Who recruits the quintet of Extraordinary Gentlemen and what is their objective?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss Quatermain's addiction to opiate and sense dulling narcotics. How does it get him into trouble? How does he bring it under control and why? Are all substances as easy to control? How or why not?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the influence of Victorian times throughout this novel. How is it evident in some ways, and ignored in others? What is the epitome of the ideal Victorian era woman? Does Mina Murray represent this kind of woman well? How or why not?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the section "Allan and the Sundered Veil." What does that refer to? Does it add anything to the novel? What exactly and why?

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