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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. Besides Thursday, who answers Spike's call for help over the wireless?

2. Who joins Thursday at the piano in the hotel bar?

3. What is Thursday's relationship with Acheron?

4. What advice is Thursday given by the person who appears in her hospital room?

5. What is the name of the hotel Thursday checks into?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Acheron Hades threaten to burn a copy of "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" in order to get Uncle Mycroft to cooperate?

2. Explain what happened at the stakeout after Buckett left.

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

4. What is a Will-Speak machine?

5. What does Thursday learn from Rochester in her dream?

6. What is unusual about the performance of Richard III that Thursday goes to with Landon?

7. How does Thursday feel about returning to her mother's home? How do you know?

8. Why is there a riot that Thursday sees on the news in her hotel room?

9. Why does Acheron Hades use the Martin Chuzzlewit manuscript in the Prose Portal instead of a copy of the book?

10. Why does Buckett leave the stakeout?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is conflict of interest? Explain Thursday's conflict of interest in the Martin Chuzzlewit case. How might her conflict of interest affect her investigation of the case? Does it?

Essay Topic 2

What is a flashback? Give examples of two flashbacks from The Eyre Affair. Explain the purposes of the flashbacks in the plot of the story. Be specific.

Essay Topic 3

List the known divisions of SpecOps and explain what each of them does.

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