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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. How old is Professor Fosca?

2. What are the six young women wearing who arrive with Professor Fosca in the college chapel for Tara's service?

3. In Chapter 2, what color is the house that Mariana lives in?

4. What type of flowers grow along the path Mariana walks in Part 2, Chapter 3?

5. How many marble columns were in the Telesterion?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Mariana able to get inside Tara's room?

2. Who is Henry Booth, and why is Mariana unsure about admitting him to her group?

3. Who is Clarissa Miller, and how have she and Mariana kept in touch?

4. Why does Zoe call Mariana in Chapter 4?

5. What does Fred tell Mariana about Fosca in Part 2, Chapter 18?

6. What are "bedders" (103)?

7. Why is Professor Fosca not considered a suspect by Chief Inspector Sadhu Sangha?

8. What is the main room at The Eagle like?

9. How does Mariana describe Professor Fosca as a speaker when she and Zoe attend one of his lectures?

10. What does the journal writer remember that he and his mother would do when it was slaughtering time at the farm?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Artistic license is the way that an author creates, art, music, or writing based on his interpretation of life. How does Michaelides use artistic license to create the realistic background of The Maidens?

Essay Topic 2

Characters have difficult relationships with their fathers. What characters have had difficult relationships with their fathers? How have these relationships influenced the type of adults characters became and how they view life and other people?

Essay Topic 3

The journal writer (Sebastian) thinks his birth should have been heralded by predictions of disaster. Why does Sebastian think his birth should have been heralded by predictions of disaster? Why does he believe his fate was decided at his birth?

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