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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 the Sleeping God call his younger son?

2. In which of the following does Machiavelli note he is a world expert?

3. With which of the following services does Josh report having an email account?

4. Which of the following does Dee quote at Josh?

5. Which of the following epithets corresponds to Clarent?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What justification does Sophie offer for her trust of Flamel and his associates?

4. In what circumstances does Saint-Germain note having started a romantic relationship with Joan?

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

6. What cover story is advanced for Nidhogg’s rampage through Paris?

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

8. How are the Catacombs of Paris explained?

9. How are the Disir described when Machiavelli and Dee initially meet with them?

10. What swords does Flamel identify as having been names for the “four great swords of power” (203)?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

At several points in the novel, the online game World of Warcraft is mentioned by name. What purpose might the repeated reference serve? What in the novel and its contexts, and in experience, suggests that purpose? 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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