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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. What book did Giles say the Mad Hatters were reading this month in Chapter 56?

2. Why was Christopher embarrassed about his father attending his birthday party?

3. What did Lucy long for more than anything as a child?

4. Who did Giles say was set to perform Beth's lobotomy in Chapter 70?

5. To what composer did Beth and Harry listen to when they were alone together in Chapter 41?

Short Essay Questions

1. How are Lucy and Francis killed?

2. How do Mab and Osla react to Beth's story when they meet with her at Clockwell?

3. Why does Harry enlist in the armed services? How do Beth and Sheila respond?

4. Whom does Mab blame for the deaths of Lucy and Francis? Why?

5. How do Mab, Osla, and Beth get help cracking the code in the end of the novel?

6. How is Giles apprehended? What happens to him?

7. What are the circumstances surrounding Osla spending the night in Philip's room in Chapter 54?

8. Why does Mab go with Beth to a gynecologist in Chapter 53?

9. How does Sheila describe the circumstances of her marriage to Beth in Chapter 37?

10. Why is Osla's relationship with Philip threatened in Chapter 38?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the backdrop of the royal wedding in The Rose Code. Why does the author count down the days until the royal wedding in the 1947 timeline? Why is this wedding significant? How does it relate to the main characters?

Essay Topic 2

Analyze and discuss the character of Mab in the novel. How old is Mab when her character is introduced? How has her character changed between the earlier timeline and the later one? What are Mab's objectives in the novel? Does she achieve those objectives?

Essay Topic 3

Describe and discuss three examples of irony in The Rose Code. What verbal irony is used in the novel, and why? How is dramatic irony used? What situational irony can be observed? Why are these examples significant to you?

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