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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. At which of the following national monuments does Josh note learning his fear of snakes?

3. At which of the following universities do the Newmans’ parents teach?

4. Which of the following *stringed* instruments does Saint-Germain note playing?

5. Which of the following does Saint-Germain note is the duration of Josh’s sleep at his home?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why do the Disir note they will attack at dawn?

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

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

5. Why does Saint-Germain note Sophie will likely be his only student?

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

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

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

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

10. What is the ultimate fate of Nidhogg in the novel?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Notably, the third primary division of the text—Monday, 4th June—has but one chapter. What effect does the compression have on the contents of the division? How is that effect produced?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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