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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. Near which of the following does Hoffman live?

2. Ink made from which of the following is found in the Owens Grimoire?

3. Which of the following accompanies the girl whose spirit Gillian sees en route to Thornfield?

4. How old is Ian when he conducts the Owenses to Thornfield?

5. With which of the following does Part Four, Chapter IV begin?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why are the more distant Owens relations disappointed in Ian?

2. How does Lockland escape Sally?

3. How are shades defined in the novel?

4. What is the lesson Sally and Gillian take from their experiences (377)?

5. What rites are needed to join the Society of the Horseman’s Grip and Word?

6. What recipe does Margaret give Gillian?

7. What tradition is noted for hikers in Thornfield?

8. What does Lockland claim is the purpose of magic (257)?

9. How does The Book of the Raven note a curse must be broken?

10. What ingredients are in Franny’s cure for drunkenness (292)?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

Consider the names of the formal divisions of the novel. What significance accrues to them? How does that significance present itself? What purpose is served by that significance? How is it served?

Essay Topic 3

Readerly attention focuses on the following passage: “Franny understood this was how loss began. She had been here before, but then, like anyone else, she had forgotten this is what happened, that things ended when you least expected them to, that you could not protect those you loved from nature and fate” (18). What in the novel and in experience support the passage? How do they do so?

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