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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What falls from the sky to the spot where Thursday and Landon were picnicking?
(a) A boulder.
(b) A car.
(c) A plane.
(d) A piano.

2. What company do the three men who talk to Thursday at the picnic work for?
(a) The local newspaper.
(b) The Goliath Corporation.
(c) SpecOps.
(d) The Toad Network.

3. What does Thursday discover is evolving from her appearance on the Adrian Lush Show?
(a) A line of Thursday Next fashion.
(b) A call for a Thursday Next to be a regular co-host on the Adrian Lush Show.
(c) A reality show about the LiteraTecs.
(d) A demand for Thursday to change other book endings that readers dislike.

4. What is the first book Thursday finds in Mrs. Nakajima's apartment?
(a) Great Expectations.
(b) The Faerie Queene.
(c) Jurisfiction.
(d) Jane Eyre.

5. When should Thursday contact the two men who are following her?
(a) When she finds the original Cardenio.
(b) If an attempt is made on her life.
(c) If something unusual happens.
(d) The next time she sees her father.

6. Who is the key to saving humanity?
(a) Thursday.
(b) A motorist.
(c) Bowden.
(d) A cyclist.

7. Where does Thursday awaken at the beginning of Chapter 5?
(a) The M-5.
(b) Marlborough Downs.
(c) At a fueling station in an area she doesn't recognize.
(d) Reading.

8. Who does Thursday discover at the coincidental epicenter in Chapter 15?
(a) A fishmonger.
(b) Mrs. Nakajima.
(c) A fortune teller.
(d) A seamstress.

9. Who is with Thursday when she awakens?
(a) Her mother.
(b) Bowden Cable.
(c) Landon Park-Laine.
(d) Her father.

10. What title is Thursday called to investigate at the end of Chapter 2?
(a) Emma.
(b) Cardenio.
(c) The Trial.
(d) A Midsummer Night's Dream.

11. What causes Thursday's interview to go poorly?
(a) Time constraints.
(b) She is feeling ill.
(c) The host of the show doesn't know who she is.
(d) Censorship.

12. What is Thursday's mother's name?
(a) Wednesday.
(b) Friday.
(c) Tuesday.
(d) Polly.

13. What is Thursday charged with, according to the man sitting next to her on the Gravitube?
(a) Disrespect for literature.
(b) Kidnapping.
(c) Assault.
(d) A fiction infraction.

14. What is Thursday's uncle's name?
(a) Wilbur.
(b) Mycroft.
(c) Orville.
(d) Joffy.

15. Who wrote Lost in a Good Book?
(a) A. S. Byatt.
(b) William Shakespeare.
(c) Jasper Fforde.
(d) Lewis Carroll.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did the agents Thursday encounters at the beginning of Chapter 8 need information from her?

2. What are the names of the men in the car following Thursday?

3. What does Thursday's father tell her about coincidences?

4. What name does Granny Next give Thursday to help her get into "The Raven"?

5. According to Chapter 14, what is the outcome of Thursday's Skyrail case?

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