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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. In which of the following years are the Flamels supposed to have died?

2. Which of the following awards does Francis note having received?

3. By which of the following were Sophie’s magical powers awakened?

4. Which of the following sports does Josh play?

5. To which of the following do Flamel and Josh head to reach the Eiffel Tower?

Short Essay Questions

1. What reasons does Machiavelli have for jealousy of Dee?

2. What reasons does Roux consider for thinking Flamel’s group strange and dangerous?

3. Why does Flamel note it is good that Machiavelli has deployed multiple police forces to search for him?

4. What reason does Machiavelli note for focusing on Flamel as he and his companions flee from the Eiffel Tower?

5. What reasons does Perenelle cite for being able to hear the voices of spirits while she is imprisoned at Alcatraz?

6. What commentary does Josh offer as Sophie attempts to remember her own phone number?

7. What reason does Scathach give for reporting her age only in human years?

8. What distraction does Francis occasion to cover flight from the Eiffel Tower?

9. What fate does the sphinx envision for Perenelle?

10. How is a tulpa defined in the novel?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Sophie and Josh are presented as deuteragonists in the novel. Which of them is, in fact, the primary character? What in the text and its contexts suggests that s/he is? How does it do so?

Essay Topic 2

The note is made that Dagon “was the last of his kind…because [Scathach] had destroyed his entire race one terrible night two thousand years ago” (133), yet Flamel retains Scathach’s services. What accounts for the acceptance of a genocide’s perpetrator by protagonists? What in the novel supports the assertion? How does it do so?

Essay Topic 3

Sources attest to the presence of novels from Scott’s The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel series on the New York Times and other bestseller lists. Assuming that sales figures reflect popularity, what accounts for the popularity of the series, as represented by the present novel? How does it do so?

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