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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 are the names of the men in the car following Thursday?

2. What does the driver want?

3. Where will Thursday's Deep Drop ticket take her?

4. What does Thursday discover is evolving from her appearance on the Adrian Lush Show?

5. Who wrote Lost in a Good Book?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who does Thursday dream about in Chapter 12? What do these two have in common?

2. Explain the black Pontiac from Chapter 3.

3. Who is driving the Skyrail Thursday boards in Chapter 4? What is significant about him?

4. What does Thursday decide to do in Chapter 10? What does she learn from Bowden?

5. Who is Cordelia Flakk? What does she want from Thursday?

6. Who is Spike? What is his role in SpecOps?

7. Explain the voice in Thursday's head in Chapter 2.

8. Who is Hades? What is his significance to Thursday?

9. What happens when Thursday gets to Mrs. Nakajima's apartment? How does she escape?

10. Explain what Thursday's father tells her about in Chapter 5 when they are at Marlborough Downs.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What literary elements does Fforde change the use for in Lost in a Good Book? How does he change their uses?

Essay Topic 2

Define suspense, giving at least two examples of suspense in Lost in a Good Book to illustrate your definition.

Essay Topic 3

What is a literary allusion? How does Fforde use allusion in Lost in a Good Book? Is it effective?

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