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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Diana glosses the term “aqua fortis” as which of the following?
(a) Water castle.
(b) Strong water.
(c) Water for this.
(d) Loud water.

2. Which of the following smells does Diana note as the first goes to visit Mary Sidney (224)?
(a) Defenestration.
(b) Interpolation.
(c) Fermentation.
(d) Mastication.

3. Which of the following is the first word Diana remarks hearing Philippe say?
(a) Yolo.
(b) Nolite.
(c) Sedete.
(d) Introite.

4. Which of the following English-speaking vampires is the first to speak to Diana at Sept-Tours?
(a) Gallowglass.
(b) Alarin.
(c) Philippe.
(d) Alaric.

5. Which of the following does Diana propose to stop telling her students as she first goes to visit Mary Sidney (224)?
(a) That they would be knocked out by the odor of the past.
(b) That they would be burned at the stake in the past.
(c) That they would be enchanted by the odor of the past.
(d) That they would be knocked out by some criminal in the past.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is a kitchen boy at Sept-Tours whose services Diana requisitions?

2. What kind of being is Marlowe in the novel?

3. The term “aqua fortis” refers to which of the following?

4. With which of the following Cardinals does Matthew meet upon arriving on the Continent en route to Sept-Tours?

5. What gift do Diana and Matthew receive from Mary Sidney and Henry Percy for New Year’s?

Short Essay Questions

1. What explanation does Matthew give Diana for the dearth of witches, vampires, and daemons in Blackfriars?

2. Why, per Goody Alsop, are there so few weavers?

3. What significance attaches itself to Matthew’s clean-shaven appearance in 1590?

4. What features does Diana note as typical of Elizabethan English writing?

5. Why does Philippe note there is no key to a library in his home?

6. What does Diana identify as among Matthew’s “tells” to Alain and Pierre?

7. What in Baynard’s Castle indicates its aristocratic use when Diana first enters it?

8. What reasons does Diana note for asserting that “Walter’s was the only opinion that mattered” (24)?

9. What reasons does Gallowglass give for refusing to enter France?

10. To what James Bond does George compare Matthew, and to which had Diana compared him?

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