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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. What does the surveillance footage reveal?
(a) A man stole the manuscript.
(b) A woman stole the manuscript.
(c) Nothing.
(d) It was an inside job.

2. To what does Thursday compare the Swindon LiteraTec office?
(a) The London LiteraTec office.
(b) A library from a country home.
(c) The library from her high school.
(d) Something out of a literary horror film.

3. Who joins Thursday at the piano in the hotel bar?
(a) Bowden Cable.
(b) Victor Analogy.
(c) Landon Park-Laine.
(d) Her father.

4. When Mycroft's bookworms eat words, what do they give back?
(a) Misspellings of the same word.
(b) Synonyms.
(c) Antonyms.
(d) Individual letters.

5. What is Spike doing when Thursday finds him?
(a) Killing a vampire.
(b) He is passed out on the floor.
(c) Exorcising a demon.
(d) Eating specimens in an anatomy lab.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the author of the poem Mycroft wants to send Polly into?

2. When Thursday arrives to help Spike, what does he need from his squad car?

3. Who shows Thursday to the room where Spike is?

4. What appears in Thursday's hospital room?

5. Who does Thursday lose in the Crimean War?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Uncle Mycroft's workshop.

2. Explain what happens when Thursday's father visits, and why.

3. After Thursday's report, Flanker tells her that Acheron is dead. How did he die?

4. Who is Pickwick, and what is his relationship with Thursday?

5. What is the Goliath Corporation?

6. While Thursday is in the hospital, a car appears in her room. Who is in the car, and what does this person tell her?

7. Who is Mr. Quaverly?

8. Why does Thursday's mother want her to call Landon Park-Laine?

9. Who is Colonel Phelps, and why is he headed to Swindon?

10. Who is Felix7?

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