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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 is *Josh* able to see from his room at Saint-Germain’s home?

2. At which of the following does Sophie lose count of the steps into the Catacombs of Paris?

3. Which of the following places does Areop-Enap last remember being before imprisonment?

4. On which of the following does the Disir strike Josh?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Why, per Perenelle, does de Ayala find no bones when spiders consume homunculi?

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

6. Why does de Ayala note Alcatraz prisoners had not been able to escape by the way Dee brought his hidden prisoner to the island?

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

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

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

10. How are the Catacombs of Paris explained?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

At the beginning of Chapter Thirty-eight, Josh realizes that Clarent gives its wielder knowledge of what it cuts, citing that transmission as the reason some fear to wield it (321-22). Clarent is identified as a cursed blade, implying that such transmission is undesirable, and Josh identifies that transmission as a temptation to its use. How is such a thing a curse? What in the novel suggests that it is one? How does it suggest such?

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

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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