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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 Sophie note had held Clarent?

2. Which of the following appears on the manhole cover where Machiavelli, Dee, and Josh descend into the sewers?

3. Which of the following does Flamel report having retrieved from his tombstone?

4. Which of the following terms describes the illegally acting explorers of the Catacombs of Paris?

5. In which of the following countries does Flamel report having found Clarent?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Saint-Germain note is the most dangerous form of immortality, and why?

2. How are the Catacombs of Paris explained?

3. What plans had Sophie had for her year that have now been overset by her entry into the occult world?

4. Why, per Perenelle, do most ghosts lack feet?

5. What does Josh notice on the table in Saint-Germain’s attic studio?

6. What is the nature of the damage Clarent inflicts on Nidhogg?

7. What does Flamel note as the first secret of the Codex?

8. Why, per Perenelle, does Dee capture Areop-Enap?

9. Why, per Areop-Enap, does Dee not kill the Old Spider?

10. What reason does Flamel note for assigning Clarent to Josh?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Online commentaries note that the reliance of YA on teenage protagonists is, in some senses, an indictment of the adults present in YA literature. For what do the adults in The Magician deserve indictment, as indicated by the novel? How does the novel indicate the indictment is deserved?

Essay Topic 2

Repeatedly in the novel, Machiavelli and Dee both acknowledge that they serve “Dark Elders.” What narrative effect does the characters’ acknowledgement of such “dark” allegiance have? What in the text supports that effect? How does it do so?

Essay Topic 3

To what extent can the novel be considered a Bildungsoman, a coming-of-age narrative? For which character? What in the text indicates as much, and how does it do so?

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