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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 is the title of Ian Wright’s major scholarly work?

2. Which of the following books does Jet note having read?

3. Of which of the following does the Owens Library have a first edition?

4. Which of the following is Kylie reported to have read?

5. Which of the following is in the White Triangle?

Short Essay Questions

1. What reason is given for Sally’s color-blindness?

2. For what reason does Durant give Franny an amulet?

3. What does Ian note as the intended effects of the malediction used against him?

4. What is the first working Kylie performs from The Book of the Raven?

5. On what do the Owens women dine when they meet Vincent at Durant’s home?

6. What reason is given for people staying home in Thornfield on All Soul’s Night, and what reason is understood to be true?

7. What does Ward ask Vincent to do as the latter leaves the Invisible Library?

8. How does Gillian attempt to evade her family’s curse with Ben Frye?

9. What are the likely reasons, per the novel, a person checks into a hotel without luggage?

10. Why does Franny consider questioning Ian Wright before he is fully recovered from his malediction?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the central discourse of the novel? That is, what is the main point the novel makes—not its theme, as such, but its main message? How does the novel bear out that discourse? What makes it the major point made in the book?

Essay Topic 2

For any one character or location, explicate the significance of his, her, or its name.

Essay Topic 3

There are many excellent early American women poets: Bradstreet, Wheatley, Rowson, and Warren, among others. What purpose is served by the focus of the novel on the poetry of Dickinson? How is it served?

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