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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. About what is Juan Manuel de Ayala happy?

2. What are the figures in green parkas called?

3. What does Nicolas suddenly realize in the scrapyard building?

4. What has Dee collected that are at Alcatraz?

5. What happens to the three flesh eaters?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Machiavelli think about on the flight to San Francisco?

2. Where is Dee and what is he contemplating in Chapter 48?

3. What surprises Sophie about Gilgamesh and what connection does Sophie make?

4. Why does Palamedes become irritated with Nicholas and what does he suggest about Nicholas' impatience?

5. What does the young man in a green parka do at the train station?

6. How does Josh keep the police from following them to Stonehenge?

7. What does Cernunnos do in Chapter 61, and what is Dee's reaction?

8. What is happening to the speaker in the program and why?

9. What does Bastet say about freeing Mars?

10. Why is Nereus after Perenelle and how does Perenelle defeat Nereus?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Characters are an integral and important part of almost all novels. Discuss the following:

1. Compare/contrast the characters of Josh and Sophie. How are they similar? How are they different? Is there a flaw in each of their personalities? Be specific and give examples.

2. Compare/contrast the characters of Nicholas and John Dee. How do they seem different? Which do you like more? Why? Which one seems more of a well-rounded character?

3. Thoroughly analyze how three of the secondary characters in The Sorceress help drive the plot and what their contribution is to the storyline. Are any of the secondary characters unnecessary? Indispensable? Which of the secondary characters are likable? Which are either unlikable or even despicable? Be specific and give examples.

Essay Topic 2

Oftentimes, a book has more of a character-driven plot rather than action driven, and oftentimes the other way. Some books seem to balance the two. Discuss the following:

1. What do you think it means to say that a plot is character driven? Action driven?

2. How do you think a plot differs if it is character driven versus action driven?

3. Which type of plot do you find more interesting? Why?

4. Do you think it is possible to have a plot where action and character development share equal time? Why or why not.

5. What type of plot do you think The Sorceress is? Explain your response.

Essay Topic 3

Though it is not a part of The Sorceress, the readers are given enough information to learn that the twins were, up until a short time ago, ordinary teenagers in modern America. Discuss the following:

1. How do you think the twins have changed from who they were before Nicholas comes into their lives?

2. Why do you think Scott chooses young, ordinary teenagers to be the heroes/heroines in the series?

3. How would the book have been different if the twins were spoiled, rich kids?

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