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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 agents Thursday encounters at the beginning of Chapter 8?

2. What do the passengers all have in common?

3. What is Thursday charged with, according to the man sitting next to her on the Gravitube?

4. Who is Thursday's Jurisfiction mentor?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Thursday's interview with Adrian Lush not go well?

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

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

4. Who is Miss Havisham? What is her significance to Thursday?

5. How do Thursday and her father change the events at Marlborough Downs?

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

7. What does the Verse Meter Analysis reveal about Cardenio in Chapter 4a? Why is this significant?

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

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

10. What does Thursday think her hearing at SpecOps is about? What is it really about?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Identify the protagonist and antagonist of Lost in a Good Book, and explain how you know these characters fit these roles. Include a definition of "protagonist" and "antagonist."

Essay Topic 2

Explain Jurisfiction. What role does it play in the story?

Essay Topic 3

What is irony? How is it used in literature? How does Fforde use irony in Lost in a Good Book?

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