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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. The term “aqua fortis” refers to which of the following?
2. The comment that “No longer a solitary meteor moving through space and time, I was now part of a complicated planetary system” (217) offers an example of which of the following?
3. Which of the following does Matthew note is on the menu for the wedding feast?
4. In which of the following forms does Diana write in her commonplace book (32)?
5. How old does Matthew note Mary Sidney was when she married?
Short Essay Questions
1. Following her forspell, as Diana consults with the London witches regarding how to control her firedrake familiar, what does she realize about the commonalities between her magical and historical practices?
2. What wedding gifts does Philippe give Diana?
3. In what ways does Diana liken Marlowe to a troublesome child (31)?
4. What reasons does Gallowglass give for refusing to enter France?
5. How does Diana note expecting Dr. Dee’s library to look?
6. What explanation does Diana receive for her displacement of half a month?
7. What significance attaches itself to Matthew’s clean-shaven appearance in 1590?
8. In the novel, what is the covenant, and who upholds it?
9. Where is it remarked that scholars search for English commonplace books?
10. How does Matthew report that Philippe will die, and when?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
As Diana makes for an apothecary to purchase sealing wax and search for a magical tutor, her companion waxes eloquent on the subject of publication, opining “on whether writers were now required to publish too much in order to survive” (244). Are writers obliged to do so? What in the text and experience suggests that they are or are not? How does it do so?
Essay Topic 2
What attitude toward history—not as an academic subject, but as a record of what has been done and by whom—can be inferred from the novel? What in the text supports the inference? How does it do so?
Essay Topic 3
Consider the comments about The Faerie Queene that Diana and Marlowe make at the beginning of the fifth chapter (58). To what extent can they be taken as indicative of the author’s regard for the work? What in the text indicates as much? How does it do so?
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