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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 does Eleanor give Simon to eat when they meet?

2. What is the only book on the shelf by Sarah Waters when Zachary looks for books by that author?

3. Who wrote the only letter that Simons finds in the cottage?

4. When Simon meets Eleanor, how long ago did she write the note that she slid under a door from the burned place?

5. How many books are on the list of books donated by J. S. Keating that Elena gives Zachary?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when Zachary is looking at the books from the Keating donation and leaves to get coffee?

2. What did Zachary's mother see and do 14 years ago in New Orleans?

3. What does Mirabel look like when he sees her at the Harbor?

4. What did the star merchant sell?

5. How does the small girl communicate how she got to the Harbor and what she was doing at the time?

6. What costume does a woman wear that fascinates Zachary?

7. What does the Keeper look like?

8. Where does Dorian take Zachary after they exchange books and what happens there?

9. How do Mirabel and Zachary get Dorian inside the Harbor?

10. Why does Zachary decide to go to a masquerade at the Algonquin in New York?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The main character in a novel is usually the protagonist. The character that opposes the main character is usually the antagonist. Who are the antagonist and protagonist in the novel? What conflict is caused by interactions between the protagonist and antagonist? Are there more than one protagonist and antagonist?

Essay Topic 2

Conflicts in a story can be man vs. man, man vs. nature, man vs. self and internal or external. Are the conflicts in the book mostly man vs. man, man vs. nature, or man vs. self? Are they internal or external conflicts? How do the conflicts affect the plot?

Essay Topic 3

The setting in a book is the place or places where characters live or events occur. Is the setting a neutral background, not important to the novel, or does the setting take on the role of a character?

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