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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 a mysterious man pay the maid for in Chapter 3?

2. Whom do Becky and Adelaide talk to at the end of Chapter 5?

3. Which of the following languages does Becky NOT know?

4. Who is the author of "The Tin Princess"?

5. Why did Becky and her family leave central Europe when she was young?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Adelaide do after Rudolf is shot?

2. How do the King and Adelaide get along in Chapter 6?

3. What does Jim do after the shooting?

4. What do the Prince and Becky's mother talk about in Chapter 4?

5. What do the Countess, Becky, and Adelaide talk about in Chapter 5?

6. Who arrives at an apartment near the cathedral in Chapter 7?

7. What happens during the meeting with the King at the end of Chapter 5?

8. What does J. Taylor tell Becky about Adelaide's past?

9. What does Jim do with the Irish gang?

10. Why is J. Taylor looking for Adelaide? What does Becky tell him about her?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Analyze Adelaide's role as a protagonist in the novel. What are Adelaide's defining character traits? Whom is she close to in the novel? What happens to Adelaide throughout the novel? What does the reader learn about her past?

Essay Topic 2

Analyze and interpret Adelaide's growth as a character throughout the novel. How has she grown, and why? Compare Adelaide when the reader is first introduced to her to how she is by the end of the novel.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the motif of death and murder in the novel "The Tin Princess". How does Pullman illustrate the death and murder motif throughout the novel? What do the characters think of death? How do the characters, particularly Adelaide, react to the deaths?

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