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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Thursday agree to help Tamworth?
(a) She doesn't agree to help.
(b) SO-5 would be a career jump.
(c) She owes him a favor.
(d) She wants to show her boss how valuable she is.

2. Why does Mycroft need a new assistant?
(a) His last assistant was fired for stealing his ideas.
(b) His last assistant mysteriously vanished.
(c) His last assistant quit to work for another inventor.
(d) His last assistant was killed in an accident.

3. What color does Thursday's father NOT want the bedroom to be painted?
(a) Maroon.
(b) Yellow.
(c) Mauve.
(d) Seafoam green.

4. Who is really the person who helped Thursday find the right room?
(a) A werewolf.
(b) A zombie.
(c) A vampire.
(d) A ghost.

5. How long has it been since Thursday was last home?
(a) Six months.
(b) One year.
(c) Ten years.
(d) Six weeks.

6. Who does a waitress recognize Thursday as while she's at lunch with Bowden?
(a) The driver of a brightly-colored car.
(b) Landon Park-Laine's ex-fiance.
(c) Anton Next's sister.
(d) The newest addition to Swindon LiteraTec.

7. Who is narrating this story?
(a) Acheron Hades.
(b) Jane Eyre.
(c) Thursday Next.
(d) Landon Park-Laine.

8. What does SO-17 deal with?
(a) Crimes within SpecOps.
(b) Crimes in the time-space continuum.
(c) Literary crimes.
(d) Vampires and werewolves.

9. Who else lives with Thursday's mother?
(a) Uncle Mycroft and Aunt Polly.
(b) Thursday's father.
(c) No one. She lives alone.
(d) Landon Park-Laine.

10. A man comes to the window at the stakeout. Who does he say wrote Shakespeare's plays?
(a) Charles Dickens.
(b) Sir Francis Bacon.
(c) Anne Hathaway.
(d) Charlotte Bronte.

11. Who shares a building with SpecOps?
(a) The local police.
(b) A local grammar school.
(c) The local public library.
(d) The local fire department.

12. How does Edward Rochester's horse fall?
(a) It becomes exhausted and collapses.
(b) By tripping on an upturned root.
(c) It was spooked by a snake.
(d) By slipping on some black ice.

13. Who picks Thursday up from the airport?
(a) Spike.
(b) Thursday's mom.
(c) Landon.
(d) Thursday's dad.

14. What happened to age Snood?
(a) A Chronoguard accident.
(b) Time passed.
(c) He chose to be aged.
(d) A Chronoguard punishment for insubordination.

15. Why is Haworth House famous?
(a) It was the home of Charles Dickens.
(b) It was the site of a major battle in the Crimean War.
(c) It was featured in an English television comedy.
(d) It was the home of the Bronte sisters.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Thursday see as she's driving through town from the airport?

2. What flowers are in the poem Mycroft sends Polly into?

3. Where is Thursday asked to go by the person who joins her at the piano?

4. What does Thursday tell her mother when she brings up Landon Park-Laine?

5. Why does Thursday have some of Edward Rochester's belongings?

(see the answer keys)

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