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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 punishment is Thursday threatened with at her hearing?

2. Who is with Thursday when she awakens?

3. Who does Thursday think is trying to kill her?

4. Who helps Thursday in the lobby of SpecOps?

5. Who wrote Lost in a Good Book?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who are agents Walken and Dedmen? Why do they approach Thursday in Chapter 8?

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

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

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

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

6. What is the Great Library? Who is its librarian?

7. How does the hostage situation on the Skyrail play out?

8. What happens when Thursday and Landon are on a picnic together in Chapter 7?

9. Explain the exchange between Thursday and her landlord in Chapter 12. What does this exchange reveal about Thursday?

10. How does Thursday change events on the Skyrail in Chapter 4a?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explain story arc, and identify the events in Lost in a Good Book for each element of a story arc.

Essay Topic 2

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

Essay Topic 3

Explain Thursday's relationship with Landen. What role does this relationship play in the story?

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